[Elecraft] K rig's longevity?

[Phil Kane]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:11:01 -0400, JT Croteau wrote:

> I have seen many great products that end up dying a useless
>death because code was sold to people who never did anything
>with it.

  I fear that about the very same mail client that I am using to
  post this message.  PMMail started as a mail client designed by
  two graduate students for the IBM OS/2 operating system which I
  was running at the time.  It was head and shoulders above
  anything available at the time in features and ease of use.
  Because of the popularity of the Windows operating systems,
  they ported it to that platform several years later.  They also
  developed a news reader for OS/2 that had the same "look and
  feel" as the mail client but never ported it to Windows, and
  arranged sales of their products through a specific distributor
  which eventually got the rights to the programs.

  After they graduated from college and lost interest in
  developing future versions, they went their own ways and there
  hasn't been any upgrades in the last four years.  Rumor has it
  that they have sold the source code for their OS/2 product to
  an individual who may or may not rewrite it - I stopped using
  the OS/2 platform several years ago.  No upgrades to the
  Windows product is expected, nor a port of the newsreader to
  the Windows platform.  As a result I have had to migrate to
  Forte Agent, a top-of-the-line newsreader, but it doesn't have
  all the features that the OS/2 newsreader had.

  With the plethora of mail clients available, why an I sticking
  to this program?  It has two features that I haven't found in
  any of the other programs - it saves messages as individual
  text messages rather than buried in a data base, and it
  permits the use of an external text editor for both composing
  and reading messages.

  Will the same thing happen with our K-line gear?  I certainly
  hope not.

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
   Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402