In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>I realise that many users are holding out in hope that the GoldFire (or >whatever it is eventually called) will soon be released, but I appreciate that >this is still several months away, if it ever reaches the market (sorry >Nasta). Nasta had a lot to say about that in the US and the things he said were very optimistic of a good replacement product, fully planned. His problems are largely financial due to his situation in the US. Expect more news of this later. > >Surely there is still a market for a small batch of Super Gold Cards to be >made up, or am I correct in thinking this may now be impossible due to >lack of availability of chips??� > Absolutely the problem. One of the chips is now completely unavailable in a usable form so the design is dead. >However, if we cannot supply people with the original QL black boxes with >expansion interfaces, how can we possibly hope to get them to purchase >more modern software which need disk drives and normally more than >128K memory.. >Any ideas on where we go from here?? Maybe we need to support Nasta somehow. Quanta would be the obvious choice for this but, having talked with the, now ex-treasurer, John Taylor at length last night I would suppose that would be unlikely. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk
