Re: ZoomFloppy - formatting a disk in a 2031 disk drive

2 cents: I think it's safe to say most 8-bit Commodore users now are from the post-PET days. The IEEE people are a minority, and so for most users a simple IEC solution is perfectly fine. Having said that, Jim, I find your products to be useful and very cost-effective. I'm one of the IEEE people, as are many cbm-hackers here, so I like the option. I was not very much into parallel speeder cables, so for me that's a feature I don't need. I do, however, have lots of IEC systems and sometimes the ZF is a bit bulky. 
Basically, it's finding a balance between demand, features, and price, and not everyone agrees, which is why it's good to have different designs to choose from. It's true somebody is gonna find a way to make money on bare-minimum hardware, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Steve

      From: Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com>
 To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
 Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:25 AM
 Subject: Re: ZoomFloppy - formatting a disk in a 2031 disk drive
   
On 5/10/2018 3:01 AM, Mia Magnusson wrote:
>
> Btw, why do people buy ZoomFloppy when they don't intend to use the
> IEEE 488 port? A XUM1541 does the same job for a smaller amount of
> money.
I always wonder if I am just missing something in the translation of 
comments like these.

It seems the suggest the goal should be to place the design files online 
for Commodore projects and focus energy on having someone else cost 
reduce the boards to the minimal use case and sell on eBay.

Jim