Msg: 4405 *Conference*

06-14-93 19:18:09

From: RICHARD HANSON

To : JOE ZAMMARELLI

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #4403 (STUFF)

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Joe: I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say shakey.  Everything is
going fine on this end.  The 1992 catalog is still valid.  I have not mailed
another catalog this year, yet.  Still working on the concept of the "Second
Decade (1993-2003)" with an eye on mailing sometime this summer.  Please read
the last few newsletters.

My concerns are beyond money.  At about $1 each, a full catalog mailing to all
members, not counting non-US, comes to over $20,000.  Yes sir, I can cut that
check.  That's not the problem.  I'm more concerned with the "way" the idea of
a 10 year catalog will come across.  My point is that just about everyone
expects an annual mailing of something or they think that all is lost.  You,
yourself used the word "shakey."

Nothing is shakey and all that was offered last year is offered still.  What
are you looking for?  What do you want or need?  Your total purchased thius far
are, Lapdos, a cable, Keyboard Bands, and the Navigation book.  This was early
in 1992.  I REALLY APPRECIATE your participation in 1992.  On 5-17-93 I send
you another catalog--you requested this.  Most everything we offer is stated in
that catalog.

Perhaps you're trying to relate more a feeling then a fact.  You want to see
new things coming out all the time.  You want to feel forward motion--maybe not
so much that you're going to buy everything but that you want some sort of a
feeling that things are happening.  If this is somewhat to the point--and over
course I'm reading way too far into your comment--I say what about getting
invloved in some of our tried and true products; like The Ultimate ROM II, or
ROM2/Cleuseau, or CARDFIL ROM, or the Multiplan ROM, or perhaps some of the
issues of public domain programming we offer?  I ask, what do you want or need
to do?  What are you interested in?  Is there anything you'd like to automate?
Another question could be how to you envision making money with your computer?
And thoughts along those lines.

The points that I'm feebly attempting to make, in response to your
question--and of course, I VERY DEARLY respect your concerns--is what can I do
on this end to help you FEEL that things are okay?  My point, Joe, is that ...
frankly, I do not know what you--you meaning our members--want in the way of
stuff and things for Model T computing beyond what is already here.

Thus, I have come full circle.  How in the world am I going to create a 10 year
catalog that will be believed, prompting participation by our membership over
the next 10 years?  Come on, Joe, write me a dissertation.  And for those
readin this thread, jump in and start throwing your words around.  -Rick-