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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: "Research Service Labs" query
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 15:55:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 15:55:00 1986
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Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!emjej    Jan 15 14:55:00 1986


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