emjej@uokvax.UUCP (01/15/86)
The last couple of months I've seen an ad in *Rainbow* for an outfit in Oklahoma City called Research Service Labs that claims to make smart I/O hardware for the CoCo. Such beasties, ESPECIALLY for disk I/O, would make the CoCo a far more pleasant place to live. (Their being near where I am in beautiful downtown Norman is icing on the cake.) I called and found an actual human...yes, he said, they were working on the device drivers for OS-9. Yes, they'd send me a catalog. About a week passes. I call and ask what's up. Delays at the printers, they say; I should get my catalog before Christmas (this is roughly a week before Christmas). January 2: I call and get a recording saying folks are gone for the holidays. I leave my name, address, and mention that I was promised a catalog before Christmas. Today, January 15th: I call and get the very same recording. (Some folks take pretty darned long holidays.) I leave name, address, mention once again that I was promised a catalog, and that I intended to see whether anyone out in electronic ladyland had ever heard of them and seen their stuff. So, here's the $2**6 question: are these folks on the up-and-up, or is this the next World Power Systems? Has ANYONE out there seen any real live hardware from them? Talked to them? Seen or heard anything to give one reason to believe that they have any real product? James Jones