Re: New GS accel., how much would you pay?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> wrote:

>I am curious.  If there were a new 16MHz GS accelerator availble that
>combined the accelerator with memory expansion, how many of you would
>buy one and for how much.
>
>I am thinking about the following theoretical features:
>
>12MB of SRAM (assuming there is some additional OS/Toolbox support added)
>1MB of Flash (for ROM disk and toolbox replacement)
>16 MHz 65C816
>
>The components should cost around US$100, but I suspect the real cost
>to produce such a card would be as high as US$500.

Bump the speed up to 20Mhz (like the CMD SuperCPU for the
C64 and C128) and include the 12megs of memory on the
card and I would peg it to about $200-$300.  Basically on a
par with how much the IIGS accelerators such as TWGS
were worth NEW back in their heyday.