Msg: 4405 *Conference*
06-14-93 19:18:09
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : JOE ZAMMARELLI
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #4403 (STUFF)
---- 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-