Re: Couple of //e Questions....

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Wayne Stewart wrote in message <39F255F0.29F3F60A@intergate.bc.ca>...

>> > The RamFasts were way overpriced when I was shopping for a SCSI card.
>> > I'm not paying $150 for a SCSI card for a computer, monitor,  2 hard
>> > drives, 4 meg ram board, PC transporter, and Imagewriter II printer
that
>> > I got for free!  Granted, this was a *great* deal.  But it's nearly
>> > impossible to *give away* complete IIgs systems these days.  The days
of
>> > $150 Apple // peripherals is *long* gone!
>
>There's not much in the way of new peripherals that are going to be a whole
>lot
>cheaper. Ethernet cards are in that price range and if production stops the
>second hand ones will likely fetch more if you can even find one.
>I suspect it won't be overly long before you see IIgs accellerator cards
>reaching the $500 mark.


This isn't exactly fair. No matter what I think of the Lance, the truth is
it has dropped a significant amount of price already, and at even a fraction
of this rate, it could be cheap enough that no one might have a reason to
complain within the next year or so.

As far as the price of GS accelerators go, maybe that is something that
needs to be re-explored. Just what is involved in an accelerator card?

Thanks,
John Oyler
http://aIIethernet.tripod.com/
jojo4@va.mediaone.net