[XCSSA] Have I mentioned that Parallax rocks?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> 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.
> 

W00t! Customer Service. I may have to build one of these, heh. Just 
because.

That is quite awesome.

David