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From: spike@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Spike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Applefest in Boston today
Message-ID: <22782@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 21 May 88 18:47:11 GMT
References: <21000@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: spike@bu-it.bu.edu (Joe Ilacqua)
Followup-To: comp.sys.apple
Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <21000@think.UUCP> whitney@think.UUCP (David Whitney) writes:
>The Boston Computer Society had at least one Apple //e charged up with
<a Zip Chip. Yes, they do exist and they are FAST. Flight Simulator was
>actually playable. The guy told me the the company actually had some
<chips at the SF fest and sold them to people on the spot. SO, it seems
>there have been some lucky souls who have had them all along.

	Maybe the Zip people read this group somewhere, because this
time all of there machines where open so that you could see that they
did have the chips in them.  They even gave some away through InCider.


<The manufacturers of the Rocket chip were there. Looks like it's a Zip
>Chip. I haven't gone through their literature yet.

	I skimmed it.  The Rocket Chip is like the 'Zip Chip' but runs
at 5MHz, where the Zip Chip runs at 4MHz.  I don't have the price with
me.  They are real, as they had a number of different Apple running
them.  (Guess what?  You can't play Load Runner at 5Mhz. ;-)


<As for the rest of the show, there wasn't much to go "ooh aah" about.
>Nothing really new aside from what's mentioned above.

	I would not say that.  There where many new things to play
with.  New drives from Sider.  GEOS was out in force (and is much more
usable with a Zip Chip than without.)  New games from everybody.

	For hardware hacks there was a board for //e or //GS to help
develop 6502 and 65C02 based systems.  When hooked up, you could watch
and control the Processor in the target system, and upload to and
download from its memory.  The had it hooked to a Asteroids Machine
(did you know it was 6502 based?).

	There where good deals to be had.  I picked up ORCA/M 4.1 for
Byte Works for $50.  They normally sell it for $99, tho it can be had
through mail order for ~$75 and from APDA for $69.


	The rumor from some friends in the BCS, is that Apple has brought
a GS+ with them to show to select developers.  But, of course, no
details.

	More new from AppleFest later as I'm going back now.

       "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 3 bucks goodbye."
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