Dave Park wrote: >> Of course, no idea if any hardware development for the QL could ever >> be commercially successfully nowadays, but it might have made for a >> nice KickStarter project to gauge real interest. > > Having worked it out myself for my own projects, I know they'd never > be "commercially successful" but I also know I don't have a business > to run and overheads, so for companies like Memory Lane, it's even > harder.
I think the key advantage for an SD-card project is something Urs already said years ago, that it might appeal to computer collectors. These are not terribly interested in the QL per se but might pay something if it enables them to transfer files to one of their collector items without too much pain. And this group is potentially much larger than the QL community itself, I guess. Though I'm not sure if a small and self-contained ROM dongle might be a bit better suited for these people, as this is probably preferable to opening the box and breaking the keyboard membrane in the process ;-) Ideally both forms could be supported with the same drivers and only little hardware changes. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
