That was why in my post, I said that $10,000 was a lot to an
individual, but not to a foundation or the like, and not
much money for R&D.
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From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Noel
Runyan
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 6:31 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Fake Messages
Catherine and listers,
I will start by echoing a strong warning about getting your
hopes up for a new Optacon 3 product anytime soon, and I
encourage you to be extremely suspicious about anyone asking
for money to fund new Optacon research.
With that said, I hasten to point out that Charles Pond's
recent messages to this list were not asking for money,
although he did state that he needed $10,000 to $13,000 in
order to finish his new Optacon display development.
Clearly, that relatively small sum of funding would not come
anywhere near the many hundreds of thousands of dollars
needed to develop the rest of an Optacon 3 device, assuming
the tactile display development portion was successful and
working well.
I also encourage us all to be extremely careful when making
and sharing assumptions or suspicions about the poor health
or death of individuals. Does anyone on this list have any
actual proof that Charles Pond is truly deceased, or do we
only have unsupported assumptions and irresponsible gossip?
In two of his recent posts to this Optacon list, Charles
Pond mentioned being his brother and writing for Charles.
These appeared to me to be the kind of ill advised humor one
might expect from someone who has been falsely proclaimed to
be deceased.
In the last several months, I have had two direct Email
exchanges with Charles, and they both were very consistent
with his former writing style and technical issues. He
mentioned Halbach magnetic arrays, a technical term for a
special kind of magnet I told him about several years ago.
I am sure that a poser would not have known to use such a
unique technical reference in Optacon discussions with me.
Certainly, I am comfortably convinced that Charles Pond, the
one we've heard from in the past, is still alive and has
recovered enough from his severe health problems to be able
to continue some discussions about Optacon tactile displays.
However, I am also convinced that we have not had
independent observation of and confirmation of any working
prototypes of Charles's Optacon 3 tactile array devices,
something that causes most experts in the field to have
serious doubts about its performance and viability.
To be taken seriously by researchers in the tactile display
field, Charles Pond will need to be more open and willing to
share details of his design concepts and any prototypes.
Sincerely,
Noel
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Noel H. Runyan
Phone: 1-408-866-7564
Email: Noel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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At 11:35 PM 7/23/2020, Catherine Thomas wrote:
I think someone is having a joke at the list's expense. Idoubt vey
seriously that the messages are authentically from Charles.The english
is wrong, the writing style does not match and the tone iswrong. If
anyone receives any private requests for funds claiming tobe from
Charles, just delete them. This is only my opinion based onyears of reading Charles'
messages.----------
Catherine
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-Catherine Thomas
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