[Oberon] Re (2): oberonstation questions, ps/2?

[enso]

Open ebay and look for "Lars <noreply at z505.com".  0 listings. Sure sign 
that Lars has faded away into academic obscurity.

You asked a question, got answers, and seem not satisfied that there are 
only thousands of places to buy a mouse.

Honestly, you are interested in a language that most people have not 
heard about.  Oberon hardware users are a community of a few hundred 
people.  You are lucky that someone is actually building dedicated 
hardware for you.  A simple thank you will do, not pronouncements that 
it will disappear because there are no ebay listings or that it's not 
sold at big box stores.

Now consider why an OberonStation 'is so expensive'.  You can go to your 
'brick and mortar' stores and do some comparison shopping of what you 
can buy for the same amount that will sell a few hundred units in the 
whole world.  Does your town even have items like that?  Look at some 
hand-made items.  Art.  Look at some solid wood chairs.  A hand quilted 
blanket.   A half-decent guitar?

You can buy a tiny computer that runs Oberon that someone spent months 
designing, without pay.  Someone who figured out how to manufacture 10s 
of them and somehow keep the price below $200.

And yes, OberonStation will of course fade away into academic 
obscurity.  What else could possibly happen?  Apple buying out the 
'OberonStation factory'?

Finally, you can always just not buy it.  Please don't buy it.  Some 
sales are not worth it because the customer will bitch and complain 
about everything imaginable and waste everyone's time with their useless 
opinions, before asking to return the item.

You can see what an OberonStation is.  How much it costs.  What kind of 
mouse and keybord it uses.  If you don't like it, make your own, -- 
QUIETLY --.

On 02/07/2016 10:57 PM, Lars wrote:
> On Tue, February 2, 2016 8:58 pm, enso wrote:
>> You could try Amazon.  A search for "PS2 mouse" yielded 13971 results.
>>
> Now try this: open ebay. Search for "oberonstation"
>
> oberonstation 0 listings
>
> Fade away into academic obscurity...
>
> Sorry. I don't wish death upon oberon, I'm just reporting the facts and
> statistics on "ebay".
>
> oberonstation 0 listings
>
> Since "new" oberon stations are so expensive, it would make sense to buy
> one used. Fail.
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