[XCSSA] Have I mentioned that Parallax rocks?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

I just had something happen that I thought was completely beyond great
and had to tell you guys about it.

A few weeks ago, I received my Propeller starter kit. While I was
working on it, I saw a post on Hackaday about how this asian guy built
a mini IRC client out of a Propeller chip.  I was very impressed with
the idea of being able to run the VGA monitor, keyboard and mouse off
of the Prop chip and knowing that this is something I am going to want
to experiment with, I went to Parallax's site and took a look around.

The only products I could find were the composite breadboard adapter
for TV video and the two PS/2 breadboard adapters.  I ordered two PS2
adapters and one of the composite adapters for general messing around
with but was a bit let down that a VGA adapter of the same type hadn't
been designed yet.

I sent them an email stating that there was a need for such an adapter
as people wanting to experiment with VGA would then either have to buy
another Propeller development board that didn't have a breadboard on
it and the VGA "accessory kit" that came separately or they would be
forced to roll their own.  The last time I tried to roll my own VGA
cable, the result was significantly less than stellar and I ended up
having to abandon the project.

I told them that a pre-built connector block that had VGAand two PS2
ports built in as a single module (like the proto board accessory kit)
would be a welcome sight for newbies that wanted to experiment with
PS2 inputs and VGA output controls but were unable to manufacture the
cabling necessary to do so.

I got an email today from Jim at Parallax stating that the Engineering
department loved the idea and they were going to build it and offer it
on the site as a new part.  In addition to this, they would give me a
couple for submitting the idea!

I have never in my days had a company acknowledge a product suggestion
much less actually make it happen AND give me one free.

Parallax definitely gets props for this.

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