Re: A silly idea for a card for an IIgs

[Polymorph <mike.a.stephens@gmail.com>]

On Friday, March 1, 2013 1:12:08 PM UTC+11, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Okay, so I'm probably missing out on some childish reasons this idea 
> 
> wouldn't work. But I thought I'd just throw it out there.

Hi Jayson,

This seems to be an interesting idea - albeit grossly over-engineered.

You do realise that battery replacements are *very* inexpensive and the 3.6V batteries last for many years.

Even if you have a ROM00 or ROM 01 IIgs, there are options out there to replace the 3.6V battery with a battery pack (e.g. of 3 AAA batteries).

I've struggling to see why you would need such a complex solution for such a trivial task.

Having Wifi is one thing, but to have it just for the sake of updating the clock and battery RAM?? I'd love to read about someone implementing such a card (after all it would be an awesome hack). Would I buy one? I think not.

Having a general purpose Wifi card would be much more tempting.

That's my 2 cents worth anyhow.

Cheers,
Mike