Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!rlcollins From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip... Message-ID: <5165.28218537@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Date: 3 May 91 20:43:50 GMT References: <9105020034.AA14949@apple.com> <5146.28201476@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991May2.201628.9534@nevada.edu> Lines: 46 In article <1991May2.201628.9534@nevada.edu>, alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes: > In article <5146.28201476@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes: >>[I sent a similar message to Scott, but I thought I would clear up some >>misconceptions for all of you] > > Actually, you sent a null message--just my last message, followed by > your .sig. Sorry!! :*) >>Even the 1040 STe has 4096 colors, and it only costs $400. (With one >>floppy and a meg of RAM) The Mega STe and the TT both have one slot, >>which is a VME slot. > > Whatever that is...it isn't NuBus and it isn't EISA (or even the older > ISA). Granted, the Apple II also uses a proprietary bus design, but > you can afford a proprietary design when you have over 6 million > computers installed. It's a standard slot architecture, used mainly in workstations. So there is already a multitude of cards available, include ethernet cards and graphic cards. >> (And with all the built-ins, slot become more of an >>expensive option rather than a conveinence.) > > Read my earlier post...anybody who tries telling you that you don't > need slots is full of shit. (Funny...Steve Jobs was trying to tell > that to everybody at Apple a few years back, and guess what happened > to him?) What if you want more serial ports for a multi-line BBS, or > data acquisition (A/D & D/A), networking (can be Ethernet, AppleTalk, > or anything else), send-fax, or any of several other things? You're > up a creek if you don't have slots. It depends on the market the machine is designed for. A low end STe has everything required for a power user, and if the user wants to do data acquisition and the like, he's going to buying a Mega STe/TT that has a slot. Slots aren't that bad, but every computer doesn't need them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryan 'Gozar' Collins Question for MAC Users: rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET |||| Power Without What IS the format of a rc1dsanu@miamiu.BITNET / || \ The Price!! MAC HFS floppy disk? R.COLLINS1 on GEnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------