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Re: Worth more dead then alive

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I see that it's being offered by US companies now as well:
http://www.alliedelec.com/search/searchresults.aspx?dsNav=Ntk:Primary|120626raso|3|,N:108&utm_source=seg&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=120626_raspi_invite_email

(Or perhaps you already knew that, and that's where you ordered from?)

On 7/11/2012 10:21 AM, Rick wrote:
>        Expected Ship Date: 08/16/2012      Expected Ship Quantity: 1
> Final Expected Ship Date: 08/16/2012
>
>
> They dinged me pretty hard on shipping and tax. $47.78 out the door.
> Apparently Newark is a division of Farnell now.
>
> We'll see if their web site that said 141 days or their purchase order is
> right. Five weeks wouldn't be so bad.
>
> I saw where someone has already done a SNES port so it has enough horse
> power to do anything I would ask of it. I'm maybe 80% sure I know where the
> Colleen/Droid 800 code is screwing up. Gawd awful, I am going to have to set
> up the tool chain and learn ARM assembler to make sure.
>
> It does look like it could be a must have for an Atari hacker. Just about
> everything else costs $100+ to do anything worth while. This should be a
> Swiss Army Knife in that it could substitute for everything from being an
> emulator to SIO2SD to ATR8000 to XEP80.
>
>
> "Trevor" <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> wrote in message
> news:jtk5n6$tds$1@dont-email.me...
>> There are 2 companies making them, I believe both are in England. It
>> doesn't cost you anything to get on the waiting list. I finally got my
>> special link to order in May, and that was when I had to pay. I then
>> received a notification from DHL several weeks later that it had been
>> shipped (from England) and it was delivered less than a week after that.
>>
>> Yes, there was a lot of waiting, but after waiting for a certain
>> Atari-related product a few years ago that I did have to pay upfront for,
>> it was like the blink of an eye... ;)
>>
>> And the great thing is that the night I first hooked it up, my 15 year old
>> daughter spent over an hour playing with it. She liked that she could do
>> whatever she wanted without worrying about messing something up. So it's
>> serving its purpose. :)
>>
>> On 7/10/2012 10:43 PM, Rick wrote:
>>> Not on wait list, I think it is one of those pay for it now and they hold
>>> your money for you. If I have it correctly, they have to order them from
>>> Farnell<sp?> in England and wait for the shipment.
> <big snip>
>
>

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Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-04-29 09:55 -0700
  Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-05-01 13:57 -0600
    Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-05-01 17:00 -0700
      Re: Worth more dead then alive bill@newbreedsoftware.com (Bill Kendrick) - 2012-05-02 05:07 +0000
        Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-05-02 08:33 -0700
      Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-06-04 15:58 -0600
        Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-06-04 16:23 -0700
          Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-06-05 08:39 -0600
            Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-06-05 14:47 -0700
              Re: Worth more dead then alive Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2012-07-07 01:15 +0400
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-06 17:09 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-08 14:47 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-09 10:12 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-10 21:43 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-11 09:21 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-11 09:21 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-11 13:43 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-12 19:16 -0700

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