Mark Tuson wrote: > Who's even in charge of producing them? The Ben platform originated as a dictionary mass-produced by a Chinese company.
What Sharism did - if I understand things correctly - was basically go to an electronics shop, get a bunch of dictionaries/agendas, find one that looked right (and Linux-capable), then see if the company that made them would be interested in producing a design variant with some small changes defined by Sharism. These changes included a different, more Unix-ish, keyboard layout, changes in the circuit (e.g., more test points [1] - I don't know what else was changed), and some branding (e.g., the white metal plate on the upper shell.) The Bens were manufactured by the Chinese company that owns the original design. [1] http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/tmp/tp-map-ba.png > Also, when did the Ya's name get changed to Yi? I must have missed that one. To make things a little more confusing, there is also a Yi in the Sharism universe, but she's a person and worked with Wolfgang. I think she mainly took care of marketing/sales, administrivia, etc. She posted a few times to the lists, the last time about two years ago. - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
