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  • Re: Fund raiser for C128D

    From Robert Bernardo@3:770/3 to All on Sat Sep 3 13:22:24 2022
    I forwarded to Brian the following questions from another user --

    * does he have a prototype created yet?

    * has he found a manufacturing company and gotten a ballpark estimate
    for the project

    * is he recreating or enhancing the keyboard?

    * does GoFundMe also have a tier level like Kickstarter (i.e. throw in
    $100 and you get a keyboard, $165 for two keyboards)

    * has he matched the color of an original keyboard to a modern day color
    for production, are there other colors available (sacrilegious!)

    * what does $15K get the community? it's not clear, does the project
    result in an open source product or just some cash for him?

    * does the keyboard have enhancements like processing onboard via an ardurino/RPI CM/PLA which then allow its use as a USB device for
    PCs/Macs/or ideally other old retro platforms (VIC-20/C-64/Amiga/TI99 4A/ST)

    * how will this work with a non-US C128D?, that will need slightly
    different keycaps, where are the translations/lanuages for the keyboard
    - in ROM?

    No reply from Brian yet,
    Robert Bernardo

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  • From Brian Seeley@3:770/3 to Robert Bernardo on Sat Sep 10 20:06:24 2022
    On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 4:22:25 PM UTC-4, Robert Bernardo wrote:
    I forwarded to Brian the following questions from another user --

    * does he have a prototype created yet?

    * has he found a manufacturing company and gotten a ballpark estimate
    for the project

    * is he recreating or enhancing the keyboard?

    * does GoFundMe also have a tier level like Kickstarter (i.e. throw in
    $100 and you get a keyboard, $165 for two keyboards)

    * has he matched the color of an original keyboard to a modern day color
    for production, are there other colors available (sacrilegious!)

    * what does $15K get the community? it's not clear, does the project
    result in an open source product or just some cash for him?

    * does the keyboard have enhancements like processing onboard via an ardurino/RPI CM/PLA which then allow its use as a USB device for
    PCs/Macs/or ideally other old retro platforms (VIC-20/C-64/Amiga/TI99 4A/ST)

    * how will this work with a non-US C128D?, that will need slightly
    different keycaps, where are the translations/lanuages for the keyboard
    - in ROM?

    No reply from Brian yet,
    Robert Bernardo

    Unfortunately at this time I am unable to continue this project. I hope to resume this in the future as I feel it is a good endeavor. Thank you for your interest in this project. I also received some good suggestions in the comp.sys.cbm newsgroup. I
    have requested a refund to the two members that supported the effort.

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  • From Gary McCulloch@1:154/50 to Brian Seeley on Sun Sep 11 09:22:34 2022
    On Sat 10-Sep-2022 8:06p, Brian Seeley@3:770/3.0 said to Robert Bernardo:
    in the comp.sys.cbm newsgroup. I

    Where are you getting the comp.sys.cbm news group?

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  • From KP KP@3:770/3 to Brian Seeley on Sun Sep 11 14:28:06 2022
    On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7:54:10 PM UTC-7, Brian Seeley wrote:
    https://www.gofundme.com/f/c128d-keyboard?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
    Too bad, I thought this was a good endeavour.

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