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From: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: SCSI cards
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Date: 17 Oct 90 04:26:17 GMT
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In article <29379@nuchat.UUCP> jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon) writes:
>A ROM 1 board is around $380 I believe.  I don't have the price of the ROM

Hmm...for that price, you have to wonder if it would be economically feasible
to build your own IIGS, in much the same way as the MeSsy-DOS folks can get
a motherboard, case, power supply, etc.  It might even be possible to stick a
GS motherboard in an IBM-type case--you'd even get a bigger power supply 
(XT-class supplies are rated for 150 watts, I think, while Apple II supplies
are only good up to 60-80 watts) and you could mount disk drives internally.

What's more, you could stick a PC Transporter in it and nobody would ever know
you really have a better computer (than a MeSsy-DOS thing) under the hood. :-)

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