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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova)
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Subject: Re: Build in the VOC
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Date: 3 Oct 90 18:53:58 GMT
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In article <1352.2708c380@desire.wright.edu> cse0507@desire.wright.edu writes:
>In article <1990Sep25.010511.17223@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes:
>> shrinkit@pro-novapple.cts.com (Andy Nicholas) writes:
>> 
>>>I'm going to take a small poll here -- one of the things that I think would be
>>>cool to see in a new IIGS (this is very presumptuous, to be sure) would be a
>>>built-in Video Overlay Card.  Think about it -- something like that would give
>> 
>The main problem I think would be the cost. I would hate to force everybody
>to pay an extra $300 for something they may not use. Maybe offer 2 flavors,
>one machine with VOC and one without.

Wrong.  Designing the new "VOC" motherboard would be cake, since most of the
GS's video circuitry was reproduced on the VOC.  Try around $50, and that 
figure is easily swallowable by a much needed price reduction.
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