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From: hammen@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Robert J. Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 24-bit Color Cards for IIx, including RasterOps summary
Keywords: IIx Color Card 24 bit
Message-ID: <2379@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 14 Dec 89 02:53:50 GMT
References: <1193@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <10041@zodiac.ADS.COM>
Reply-To: hammen@jolnet.UUCP (Robert J. Hammen)
Organization: Personal Publishing
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In article <10041@zodiac.ADS.COM> jtn@ads.com (John Nelson) writes:
>>  I've heard rumblings that there's a SuperMac 24-bit board in the same price
>I've heard of this SuperMac card too, but I don't think it's in the
>same price-range.  Can anyone out there provide details?

Yes, SuperMac does have their own 24-bit video card. I believe the introductory
price is $899, and, as someone alluded to in another message, you can add a
QuickDraw accelerator board to it for under $500.

>The Quickcolour from Supermac consumes a whopping 2 AMPS from the slot
>in the IIcx.  Not the sort of thing I'd want in my machine.  I read

I believe that it's Radius who makes the QuickColor boards, not SuperMac.
I'm not defending them, but I think Apple really made a bad move by giving the
IIcx such a wimpy power supply (a friend w/2 video boards in his cx has 
problems with the machine spontaneously rebooting).

Robert Hammen | Technical Editor | Personal Publishing | hammen@ddsw1.mcs.com