On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:54:42PM -0400, Bill Garber wrote: > I am totally in agreement here as well, and if someone else > had a product that would help the Apple II community, I surely > would NOT attempt to keep someone from getting one.
Just to be clear, I'm not offended by the price of the card. The card is worth what people are willing to pay for it. What was getting on my nerves was your insistence that a IIgs needs one in order to be useful. That sort of mentality is, IMHO, both misleading and detracts from a potential pool of collectors who are simply interested in cheap toys (by choice or by economic circumstances). > To blow the money for the chips to upgrade the 1MB card is futile > since down the road most people will want more ram. If you were going to pay $17 for an additional 756 kB of RAM, I would agree. But that price shouldn't be taken seriously because that type of RAM can be found by the boatload, perhaps the owner of the IIgs has it and perhaps somebody would offer it up cheap. > if people want 8 MB, I'm damned well going to try to give it > to them. :o) Which raises the question: why haven't you? A design which uses two 4 MB SIMMs should be a great deal more simple, and I seem to recall that the address space of a IIgs is 16 MB. While the other 8 MB is read-only, a bank-switching scheme may allow you an 8 MB ROM disk using a design similar to your current card. > I see Mac folks all the time saying that they have the latest > and greatest stuff in their machines, and although I see little > to no need for most of it, I'll defend their right to expand as > much as they want. :o) I collect old Macs as well, and I don't really see people claiming that you need X amount of RAM or a machine with processor Y in order to make it useful (well, there is the G5 or bust crowd, but how many people collect anything higher than a G3 and I don't collect anything higher than a 68040 personally). This mentality makes them a much more plesant bunch to hang around. Byron. -- Apple2list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Apple2list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/apple2.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:apple2list@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/apple2list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
