As 2019 is about to end, our staff would like to wish all our customers, friends and suppliers a happy new year. We are very thankful for all the support we received so far and hope to continue in 2020.
In 2019 we shipped our products to 46 different countries. The most popular products were the RAMGS/8, the CGA2RGBv2 and the T232.
Product shipments
The table below ranks the top 10 countries by total sales. As usual our major markets are North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia. The UK gained 2 positions displacing Canada and Australia. New entries in the top 10 are the Netherlands and Switzerland.
| Rank | Change | Country | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | = | USA | Thank You! |
| 2 | = | Germany | Dankeschön! |
| 3 | ↑ | United Kingdom | Thank You! |
| 4 | ↓ | Canada | Thank You! - Merci Beaucoup! |
| 5 | ↓ | Australia | Thank You! |
| 6 | = | France | Merci Beaucoup! |
| 7 | = | Italy | Grazie Mille! |
| 8 | = | Japan | ありがとうございました！ |
| 9 | ↑ | Netherlands | Dankuwel! |
| 10 | ↑ | Switzerland | Dankeschön! - Merci Beaucoup! - Grazie Mille! |
Faires and Exhibits
This year our team attended two maker faires (Bay area and East Bay) where we met many friends, a few customers and introduced retrocomputing to hordes of curious kids.
New Products
We introduced several brand new projects: the universal C64/C128 cartridges with PLCC socket Unicart/D and Unicart, the Microsoft SoftCard compatible Z-80 card GZ-80 and the A2SCSI SCSI card for Apple II series and the arduino compatible SSR1/A solid state relay shield.
We redesigned the CGA2RGBv2 Digital RGB to Analog RGB converter with additional support for EGA and MDA.
We also done some minor updates to the T232, the F2R16 and the GLINK232T.
Finally, to keep up our 6502 programming skills, we developed two new applications: the GMT Memory tester for Apple IIgs and C64/C128 and the GTERM VT100 terminal emulator for Commodore 64 computers.
Charity
In 2019 we made 82 new loans on kiva. Similarly as last year our focus was agriculture/food production (46%), education (20%) and manufacturing (15%). We also continued our support of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.