On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 11:03 +0100, Robert Michel wrote: > Salve Michael! > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > > > I also never realized that FIC is not just some little startup > > > That makes it a lot more likely that they will still be around for V2 to > > > get > > > released, and for V1 to actually work. > > > > I'm kind of surprised that FIC means so little to a lot of people I'm > > talking. > > Just look http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIC or in anny other > languages then english. I wrote Sean yesterday an email > and pleased to add some more intresting stuff to: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_International_Computer > > Official is this article count as: > " This computer-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by > expanding it." > > > FIC was well-known to be a manufacturer of solid x86 > > motherboards back in the 80s. Perhaps most people weren't into > > computers back those days? ;) > > Could it be that to much production for other brands weaken the > popularity of the brand FIC? > > End users are brand orientated, but IMHO this doesn't count... > for us it is important the quality of the hardwareproduction > and I have a feeling that FIC is a very good choice. > > So before the wave on media response about the Neo we should > help with spreading some more informations about FIC - some > more details, some pictures... > Maby the decision of FIC to join/support/drive the > OpenMoko/Neo1973 project and to develop and produce the Neo1973 > could bring a popularity/image benefit for FIC? ;) > Just beside of the chance of profit with selling Neo1973s? > > So expanding of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_International_Computer > would help. > > Greetings, > rob
This is a good idea. I added my first stab...a link to OpenMoko :) I think OpenMoko will be the most notable product from FIC in the US this year (at least) :) Jon > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
