Re: IIe workstation card

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

>     Talk to me in a week though. I may have the best option yet. And to
> those of you that have wondered, prototype within 10 days. Sample chips are
> finally on the way, and supposedly will arrive by friday. Everything else is
> mundane enough that I can pick up at most radio shacks.

I've been following your posts in this newsgroup for the past month
(about when I started in the group myself).  I think your project is
incredibly neat.  Such old hardware.  I cut my teeth on computers in the
7th grade disassembling the Apple IIe applesoft ROM.  It was amazed me
that a 1MHz Apple IIe could do floating point math (multiplication,
addition, cosine, etc...) faster than a 4.77 MHz IBM PC-XT.  Then I
looked at the # of CPU cycles required by the 6502 vx the 8088 to do a
cosine, or a add.  wow.  

Anyway, I think your project is neat.  I wish you luck.  Someday I might
purchase a card from you, just so I can hook up my Apple IIe to the rest
of my LAN (even though I don't do anything on the IIe except play
'LEMONADE' :) )

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dennis@usb.com                           Universal Savings Bank.

The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron,
a
manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.