[Cube] Slink-e

[Donald Schwab]

My understanding is that the designer of Slink-e/developer of CDJ 
violated a number of Microsoft held patents in the Slink-e.  After a 
legal wrangle, the settlement was that at some future point (July 2004, 
apparently) production and sale of Slink-e would stop.  The 
designer/developer, on the other hand, got a position at Microsoft.

How true this is I don't know, but Nirvis (the Slink-e producer) did 
announce its closing this last summer.

Title Track bought Slink-e's from Nirvis, but developed its own 
software for Macs.  Apparently without a supply of Slink-es, they 
decided to fold the firm.  The prior URLs for them are now dead.

The owner, developer was named Dave Dinkelspiel, I believe.  Does 
anyone know of him?  Does he have a garage full of unsold software?

Any one know.

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On a brighter side, there apparently is a Slink-e substitute for 
running Sony CD Changers -- BlackBoxDesigns makes a similar but less 
complex interface unit named SAV-R.  I imagine this would work with 
Title Track on a Cube.  And if one needs a good USB-Serial Port adapter 
to use with a Slink-e or SAV-R, Dev Depot is offering a Keyspan one 
currently on sale.

Don

On Dec 26, 2004, at 10:20 PM, atoa at krak.net wrote:

> I can't find it either (Titletrack). Any idea what happened to the 
> company? And why did the slink-e get discontinued?
>
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