From: mike 

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:46:39 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>
>"mike"  wrote in message
>news:f14963hk1csg9761aa8hs1p5oncv6jg441{at}4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:37:04 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>>>"mike"  wrote in message
>>>news:9bv263pa7nnrgnl4bsffv9no0qe3no1co0{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>>>>He should do a little market research before playing.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps he did, and he is not going after the techie/hobbyist market
>>>> that you are in, but the larger non-techie market.
>>>
>>>Todays techie/hobbyist market is tomorrows main stream market..
>>
>> In some cases, yes.  In some cases, no.  For example, in the 60's and
>> early 70's, Heathkit was in a large techie/hobbyist market.  Yet that
>> kit-making market never became a mainstream market.
>>
>> Additionally, *all* mainstream markets do not necessarily start out in
>> the techie/hobbyist market.
>>
>> /m
>
>I would say that yesterday's Heathkit builders are today's Linux OS
>implementers - attempting to assemble many disparate parts into one cohesive
>usable system and left wondering what this remaining diode was for.

Hardly a main stream market, though.

 /m

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