Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!jarthur!wilkins
From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Color Video for SE/30
Message-ID: <3204@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 21 Nov 89 19:59:47 GMT
References: <UZNnrEi00WBLQ1Xlp=@andrew.cmu.edu> <24286@cup.portal.com> <1065@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <1065@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>In article <24286@cup.portal.com> Fabian@cup.portal.com (Fabian Fabe Ramirez) writes:
>
>[re: color cards for SE/30]

>:RasterOps.....................ColorBoard 264...............$1295

>Okay, so anybody want to comment on why these boards are so expensive (except
>the Micron).  Are these all 8-bit, or are some of them 4 or 24?

The RasterOps board, at least, is 24 bit.  I am not sure of many of the
others, although the Spectrum/8 is 8 bit and I suspect most others might be
too.

   The reason they are expensive is that when you make a NuBus card, which
is what most are based on, you are aiming your card at the II, IIx, IIcx,
and IIci markets, which together are a much bigger market than the SE/30
market and requires major re-engineering effort.

  -- Mark Wilkins
     wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu