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From: lbotez@pro-sol.cts.com (Lynda Botez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Zip GS
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Date: 4 Jun 90 16:56:05 GMT
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Here's some interesting new information about the above-mentioned new product
from Zip that I gleaned off of a rather well-informed Apple II BBS that I
frequent....

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I went to the Orange Apple Commputer Club meeting today and the President of
Zip Technology made a presentation demo of the alpha Zip GS board running at
6.25 Mhz speed.  The key to the new accelerator was a ASIC chip which
eliminate
extra chips and electronics due to consolidation into one major chip.  In late
July, they will be shipping the 8Mhz rated boards for $349.00.  He had the key
engineer with him and they will eventually upgrade to a 20Mhz speed by
swapping
the 65816 chip with a faster chip.  The board also provides cache memory using
64k chips running at 25 nonoseconds speed.  I will be calling their Culver
City
manufacturing facility on Monday to ask for the specs.  Has anyone else
checked
out Zip?


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So Zip are the ones who signed the agreement with ASIC.  Not Applied
Engineering.

Anyone have an update on the ASIC chip and how it's progressing?

Lynda