Re: (ET) Bill Gunn going out of ET business

["daveb" <daveb seanet com>]

who knows Bill Gunn best??  Or perhaps more to the point who is close 
enough 
to him to pay him a visit?

My impression of Bill, based on only a few phone conversations, is that 
he's 
a cantankerous old guy (bless his heart), does not trust new fangled 
technologies (the web, email, credit cards et al) and moves at one speed, 
his.  ;^)

This will be quite a loss.  and if we're to salvage anything at all I 
think 
it is going to take a personal face to face visit with him.  Can anybody 
on 
the list manage that?

I've a friend going back to visit family in Wisconsin (Mineral Point) 
maybe I 
should tag along with him ...  I am looking for something to do when I get 
retired a "niche market" business like this has great appeal for me.  I'm 
willing and would like to discuss options...    

dave
seattle

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From: "Mr. Shannon Aldinger" <shannon yinyang hjsoft com>
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Sent: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:37:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: (ET) Bill Gunn going out of ET business

> >Ouch!  So what's going to happen to all that stuff?  Should we create an
> >"ET owners' coop" to buy it?
> 
> That may be the only option, he's not taking any new orders.
> 
> An ET owners' coop has several issues to overcome:
> 1. storage of parts, etc.
> 2. ordering / shipping parts, takes time
> 3. procedure for passing control when the person/people storing and
> shipping parts, can no longer do so
> 
> 4. coming up with the money to buy out / ship Bill Gunn's remaining stock
> 5. loosing the 20+ years of knowledge Bill Gunn has built up.
> 
> I can provide at least a partial soultion to 4 and 5. I'm willing to 
> kick in at least $500 toward a coop purchase of Bill Gunn's stock, 
> blueprints, etc. I can develop a support database to store problems 
> and solutions we encounter to build a step by step solution to the 
> problems we encounter and fix.
> 
> Also, to offset some of the associated storage costs, the coop may 
> need to charge a yearly membership fee say $15-$30 range for access 
> to the support database and to order parts.
> 
> Someone needs to take the lead on this.
> 
> Shannon Aldinger
> 
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