Hi Don, >If any of you remember the date when the 7330 was first announced in comparison to today's date, you'll recall that it's been quite a few years. No, the 7330 is a recent design. But besides the 7250 (the forerunner of the 7330), there were two other successors to the 7K that I (regretfully) discussed in public. First there was an 8-port -- a real thing of beauty -- with a ColdFire processor and two TI DSPs. I halted it when it became clear we would never recover the huge development costs, but not before investing the equivalent of an H2. We then lowered our sights and worked on a 4-port with dual 16-bit processors. Same problem. It was only when WA1JHK suggested we use an FPGA to do the heavy lifting in hardware rather than software that things turned around. That third attempt worked, and we now have a terrific platform for all sorts of future projects. Today we don't build monuments to technology or go crazy trying to serve a small sub-segment. The job is to offer the best value (as in "features per dollar"). >So, where is the controller headed? What new features in the software are we going to see? V1.1 comes out this weekend with fixes for the reported bugs to date and a huge increase in vocabulary. Top items on the next couple releases are message routing and the ability to add user sound files. The wish list is huge -- just ask Dave. I won't even speculate on when most of the items on the list will be finished. >One thing that I can say to you and everyone else is that the SCOM products are well engineered, and that when hooked up correctly to a repeater, the audio is fantastic. I can't tell you how many users of my machine have commented on that. Thank you, I appreciate that. Audio quality has always been the topmost goal. >Perhaps you can share some upcoming ideas about the controller with the groups. For now, we're keeping most of that internal to the 7330 owner list. We'll open it up a bit later. 73, Bob
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