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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Zip GSX
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.072837.8271@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 07:28:37 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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acct069@CARROLL1.CC.EDU (Ron) writes:

>They were supposed to come out with 3 versions of the Apple //gs
>accelerator.  A chip based non-DMA, a chip based DMA compatable, and a
>slot-based expandable version with everyone seems to have.

The slot-based expandable was the only version they initially made, and
it's what the majority of their market wanted (people who for the most
part weren't suspicious of Zip because of their earlier problems with the
//e Zip -- which weren't their fault although their rather inept P.R. handling
made it seem that way).

Now that the word is out that the Zip GS is O.K. they have realized that
there's little point in manufacturing three different boards -- especially
when the real cost is in the CPUs now that they've worked enough bugs out
to go into bigger production quantities.

Selling a single board makes infnitely more sense, especially when you can
equip it with the base configuration and sell it for $149. This means less
shuffling when people upgrade and so on.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu