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From: pierce@radius.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 24-bit Color Cards for IIx, Radius Correction
Keywords: IIx Color Card 24 bit
Message-ID: <1228@radius.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 23:34:33 GMT
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  First of all, since someone asked heres the poop:
	
     MSRP's for our current line of 24 bit card:

      16-bit DirectColor Card    $3,695
      24-bit DirectColor Card    $4,995
      Upgrade 16->24             $1,495
      19" 1152x882 Sony Trinitron Monitor (Two FULL Pages) 4,295
      
     Related products:

      QuickColor Graphics Accelerator  $795      ( make 24 bit as fast as 8 bit)
      PrecisionColor Calibrator        $695      ( What good does 16 million colors do you
                                                   if they're the wrong ones)

>>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

     Radius not Supermac makes the QuickColor board. The board consumes LESS than
   2 amps, and the power budget for EACH SLOT in a Mac II is 2 amps regardless.

     On the other hand, the DirectColor card consumes almost 4 amps, but there's not
   much we can do about that, 1152x882x24bits of Video Memory and 3 8bit RamDACS with
   a refresh rate of 72 Hz (no flicker) consume that much power.

Pierce     

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