[sdiy] Andromeda A6 hardware questions

[Mark Pulver]

:)

The testers didn't have any access to tools, only the machines themselves. 
We were spread out across the country, so all official discussions with The 
Jerk were in email. That email was on a server, and honestly I can't 
remember who had control over it - I think it was me. I may have archives 
somewhere.

Don't think that the beta testers had any additional access to information 
over the general public. The Jerk made sure that we knew (well, "let him 
think we knew") he was God and thus we were just peons assigned to help him 
out. He didn't much want the help, and he certainly didn't want to share 
any info that may have helped us help him more.


I've just heard from someone offline about this; he reminded me of The 
Jerk's name... sigh.

Peake is still around, though of course he hasn't had anything to do with 
Alesis for a LONG LONG time. I'll suggest though that as folks remember the 
people behind the A6, do NOT forget about Mike. He was possibly more of an 
influence in Alesis making that machine _at all_ than anyone else in the 
company. There's a lot of his own sweat & blood in there.

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cheater cheater (12:14 PM 3/3/2010) wrote:
 >Doesn't the lemon law apply to this?
 >
 >D.
 >
 >On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 19:38, Jason Proctor <jason at redfish.net> wrote:
 >> Mark could you shed some light on the development environment used? anyone
 >> any idea what happened to Peake? he was quite deeply involved IIRC.
 >>
 >> i mean the Coldfire is lovely and i would just use assembler but hopefully
 >> i'm not a _JERK_
 >>
 >> :-)
 >>
 >> seriously when it comes to stuff like this there should be a big fat law
 >> which says SUPPORT IT OR OPEN SOURCE IT.
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>> I just joined to look over all ya'll shoulders on this. I've been doin'
 >>> embedded coding for eons, reverse engineering software since the late 
70's,
 >>> and was one of the original beta testers for the A6.
 >>>
 >>> I sold my A6 eons ago, somewhat because I just didn't "feel" it, though
 >>> largely because of the bad taste that the beta test left in my mouth. 
It was
 >>> hard to own the machine in the state it released after knowing what it 
could
 >>> have been.
 >>>
 >>> The lead coder was a _JERK_. We asked for very little, got even less. Even
 >>> things like simple menu changes and ordering were a nightmare to get 
him to
 >>> change, let alone envelope designs, loops, arpper options...
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> I wish you guys all the luck I can.
 >>>
 >>> Mark
 >>>
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