on 14/2/02 9:19 AM, Dwayne Reid at dwayner@PLANET.EON.NET wrote:

Hi guys,

Thanks to Ted's original post and subsequent Aussie bashing - including poor
old Steve Irwin - I called Bitscope today and had a lengthy chat with Norm
Jackson. He was very interested in the stir they had created on an otherwise
fairly sedate engineering type list.

He told me to tell you guys that they are investigating ways to set up some
sort of distribution from the land of the free and home of the brave. He is
still amazed that customers can be shocked to learn that something so
"hi-tech" as the Bitscope was actually developed and manufactured down
under.

We are not as stupid as we make out in our movies, you know! I recently
purchsed a USB to Optical out adapter for my Macintosh and discovered that
the very professional (US looking) company was actually based in Can-berr-a!

In fact, Bitscope are not really set up to sell to Aussies at all! I was
simply given a discount from the US Dollar prices because of our terrible
Australian Peso at the moment and then charged in Aussie Dollars.

Norm was very helpful and is pushing his PIC Prototyping boards which you
might want to check out on their web page.

Well, off to stoke up the soldering iron! Wish we had those new-fangled
electric ones downunder!

Cheers,

Sean

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