Re: in my dreams

[Sheldon Simms <sheldon@semanticedge.com>]

Im Artikel <3C4C89E3.5A75355C@nyc-strip-clubs.com> schrieb
"left_the_scene" <postmaster@nyc-strip-clubs.com>:

>> > and, of course - SOMEONE (SSH maybe?) would make transwrap GS's
>> > again!!! and the apple superdrive controller!!!!!
>> 
>> Are you willing to pay $1000 for it? After design, layout, material and
>> production, that is propably what each unit will cost. Unfortunately,
>> we don't have a userbase that can support 20k unit sales!
> 
> That's why the post is titled "in my dreams". Never seen either card. Is
> ther mostly custom LSI on both? Custom chips no longer produced?  I
> don't get why someone can't just copy the silkscreens and drop the IC's
> on a board, unless:
> a) someone will actually still enforce the copyrights/patents on the
> designs(!?!?!)
> or
> B) they both use custom IC that are now impossible to get.

You probably could clone a transwarp, or a zip. Zips, at least,
used programmable logic instead of a custom IC. Apple cards almost
always used custom ICs, though, so cloning a superdrive card
would be a bit more difficult.

On another subject, anyone else notice that Apple has only a limited
number of names that they keep reusing? Appleworks is now a Mac
program. A Superdrive is now a combo CD/DVD-R/W drive, etc...

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Sheldon Simms / sheldon@semanticedge.com