Red, mind filling us non-8bit user in on the history of this story. Sounds almost as bad as A-inc., the albatross of the computer industry.
I'll give the Cliff Notes :-)
Creative Micro Designs (CMD) was known for high end hardware solutions for The Commodore 64 & 128.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Micro_DesignsIn 2001 CMD finally quite the Commodore market, later that year Maurice Randall (later Click Here Software) acquired the rights to sell most of the product line. It was never known if he bought the rights or simply had a license.
Maurice was long known in the C= community for small software products like Geos addons, he was also a race car driver and owns a automotive shop. Long story short he did sell JiffyDOS roms on and off (mostly off) along with some old stock of magazines and low ticket items, but production of the big stuff Like SuperCPU, CMD HDs and RAMLINKs never happened. To make things worse he has collected pre-order money for some of these big ticket products dating back to as far as 2001 in some cases. You also have people who sent big ticket products in for repair, which disappeared into a black hole.
Jim Brain is also well known in the C= community. He has worked on developing hardware and released the design to the public. Most recently he has been working on the uIEC and selling units himself.
http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/uIECJim Brain makes that announcement last night which is specific to JiffyDOS, a product that greatly enhances the speed of floppy drives in Commodore 8 bit computers. It appears Maurice Randall's license for JiffyDOS has been revoked and Jim Brain (Brain Innovations) has one now. Pure speculation on my part and probably everyone else at this point is that this will lead to the rest of the product line eventually. If I was gambling, I'd give it 99 out of 100 odds this will lead to most of the other products!
