Re: Second Sight news??

[themaples@worldnet.att.net (Bruce Maples)]

I didn't know there was actually a working card.  I agree, Nathan,
that is absolutely one of the most misbegotten decisions (in a very
long line of them) that I have ever heard.  To have it working and not
release it ... (I can't draw an emoticon that effectively displays how
I really feel.)

Well, why can't someone else pick it up? Is it impossible to do?
My own read on it would be that it would be more difficult because of
the funky way the ][ does interrupts (or so I understand).

Bruce

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On 28 Mar 1997 06:43:17 GMT, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>In article <333b365e.50766963@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
>Bruce Maples <themaples@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>Did someone actually get a working Ethernet card for the ][?
>
>   Yes, those *were* completed, but Apple decided that the view
>of their intestines was too great to miss, and never sold them. I
>believe Jawaid Bayzar and Alltech's Tony Diaz both posess one
>each, maybe a few others.
>
>   This *should* have been released at the same time as System 6.0.1.
>[When I was working at Softdisk, all of the 6.0.1 beta disksets had
>Appletalk and ethernet selectable for networking, etc.] This was not
>vaporware, this was not some pipe dream. It existed. Apple shafted
>their users in order to try and push more folks towards Macs. Sorry,
>didn't work for me and a lot of others.
>
>   I'd use an Apple II ethernet card. So would lots more people. Oh
>well, who ever expected a clue from the management at Apple. [The
>technical folks were always on top of their jobs, but the idiot
>decisions came from Apple.]
>
>Nathan Mates
>--
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