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#HAM-E / NewTek

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#79712From: Brian BartlettDec 20, 1989 12:13 AM
if you don't mind my frank response, it looks to me like they are out to "steal/appropriate/etc…" your idea. If, as they state, they had been working on it for the last two years, it would have been announced at least a year ago. As evidence, I present The Video Toaster. Given such, NewTek hereby receives my turkey of the year award, and I shall refrain from recommending their products or even talking to them. Such dealings I can do without. What's up with these people? Just doesn't make sense in the least.
#79782From: Black Belt SystemsDec 20, 1989 3:44 PM
Brian, I do not believe that it is _clear_, as you put it. NewTek may well have their own ways of doing things. For instance, I had designed, implemented, and sold a device that uses these techniques which was used on the Radio Shack TRS-80c a number of years ago called the "CoCoGrey". This took the flying video, as the HAM-E does, and reformatted qit such that a completely new resolution/mode was available on the TRS-80c. This idea, as you see, has been in our stables for quite some time, more than 4 years in fact. Yet, we didn't mention it, other than in some blue-sky messages here in CIS sevaral years ago. The only conclusion you can properly draw from this is that NewTek's support will not be forthcoming for the HAM-E board.
#79836From: Ben A LottDec 20, 1989 11:15 PM
It will when they get caght with thier product pants down just watch. (Heh, Heh, Heh I see a definate upstage here for Microillusions).
#79934From: Brian BartlettDec 21, 1989 1:06 PM
ok, I may be overreacting, but it does strike me as strange that you announce your product and all of a sudden they have one on the burners too, when they've announced products well "before their time" before. (Hmm…that's a tortured sentence :-). Very strange.
#79865From: Guy F. NormandinDec 21, 1989 1:09 AM
If Black Belt start to design Toaster by now, i bet will be available before the Newtek one. :>
#79935From: Brian BartlettDec 21, 1989 1:07 PM
no contest. I have faith in Ben! 🙂