Todd,
For the record, neither I nor Formability Inc operate
Stereolithography.com, 3DGuys.com, LaserSintering.com or RPWare.com.
Those sites are owned by Solid Conversion, Inc. That is the other Ron
[Barranco].
I do however run www.rapidprototyping.net ...a small RP discussion board.
The STLQuote product line was developed by me in 2002, and as you
mention was acquired by APP in 2004.
Ron James
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Todd Pederzani
<tpederzani@protocam.com> wrote:
Kevin Adams wrote:
> I believe I ran across an online system prior to Quickparts, but
> just cant recall who it was. Anyone with a better memory than me
> recall anything???
Are you thinking of STLQuote? They're the only "canned" system that
I know of. STLQuote was owned by Formability, which is (was?) one
of a series of companies that Ron (James) Barranco is behind, which
includes Stereolithography.com, RapidPrototyping.net, Print3d.com,
3dGuys.com, solidconversion.com <http://solidconversion.com>,
lasersintering.com <http://lasersintering.com>, and rpware.com
<http://rpware.com>. The earliest correspondence I have tor
STLQuote is April 2002, and May 2002 is the earliest copy of the
website that archive.org <http://archive.org> maintains. Of course,
APP owns STLQuote now, and if they're concerned about the QuickParts
patent, it probably isn't in their best interest to reply in public.
If it wasn't STLQuote, do you remember anything about it that may
help track it down?
I hadn't heard of the "combover" patent, but I have heard about a
patent for exercising your cat: 5443036 (although how the cat can
see *in*visible light eludes me.) The patent you're referring to is
4022227, if you want to look it up!
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Todd Pederzani tpederzani@protocam.com <mailto:tpederzani@protocam.com>
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