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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Color Video for SE/30
Message-ID: <434@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 19:52:37 GMT
References: <UZNnrEi00WBLQ1Xlp=@andrew.cmu.edu> <24286@cup.portal.com> <1065@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
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In article <1065@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>:SuperMac......................ColorCard SE/30..............$ 899
>:SuperMac......................Spectrum/8 (Series II).......$1895
>:Micron Technology.............Xceed SE/306-48..............$ 595
>:Generation X Technologies.....Vision '030A.................$ 995
>:RasterOps.....................ColorBoard 264...............$1295
>:RasterOps.....................ColorBoard 108+/SE30.........$1895
>:Fabian Ramirez
>:SuperMac Technology
>
>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?

Micron make their own chips (they are primarily a chip manufacturer and
I guess annoyed that almost no-one in the Mac community uses their VRAMs :-).

Some of the boards above (in the $900 range and, I think, the RasterOps
264, I'm not sure about the Generation X board) only support the 640x480
Apple color monitor [and maybe NTSC]. The more expensive ones ($1900 range)
support larger color monitors (around 1024x768).

The primary reason for price differences have to do with the number of
(expensive) VRAMs they need. 

	Paul Campbell

(PS: I work for SuperMac too so bear my biases [if any] in mind)
color monitor

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