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From: dvac@drutx.ATT.COM (VachonD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: The Zip Chip scam
Message-ID: <6495@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 88 18:36:06 GMT
References: <8801150020.AA17848@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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In article <8801150020.AA17848@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU>, halp@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU ("Bruce P. Halpern") writes:
> RE: Transwarp
> 
> I assume you don't have one. There is no interference with peripherals. Dip 
> switches on the card allow any peripherals that need to operate at 1 Mhz to do   so. If that was your reason for not buying a Transwarp (discount prices are 
> close to the $140 you report you paid for the vapor-chip), more investigation 
> would have been cost-effective.

Sorry Bruce....Not so.... I have a friend who runs a BBS with both a TimeMaster
and Transwarp.  The problems is that these two cards can not live off the same
bus together.  With both cards installed he gets I/O errors on his Hard Drive
and funny things happen like hanging.  If he takes one card or the other out,
it functions fine....  So now he has one of these two cards just sitting on the
table collecting dust and all AE told him to do was to try all his cards in a
different computer.  Yeah!  No problem!  Everyone has an extra Apple in the 
closet.  Not everyone has a couple Apples that they can do this with.  I think
AE has a definite problem here with the Apple Bus, but have no idea how to
combat the problem.

Later -Dan Vachon-     !ucbvax!ihnp4!drutx!dvac