Re: New Apple II....

[jd-wong@uiuc.edu (Jim Wong)]

[sorry about the screwy quoting]

> >The point really should be, if they offered most of the current setups on
> >here, IIGS accelerated, 3.5 inch floppy and a medium sized HD with about
> 4
> >megs or RAM for say $200. Wouldn't it sell like hotcakes?

Four megabytes of memory will probably run you at least $75-80.  A floppy
drive and controller that can read 800K (ie, almost all) GS disks will
probably cost in the vicinity of $40.  The 65816 surely costs at least
$15.  And used "medium-sized" (40-80 MB) hard disks still go for about
$15-20.  Those components alone add up to over $150, and once you start
adding niceties like a motherboard, slots, and expansion ports, you're
well past the point where you can make money selling these things for
$200.

> 
> How many of those things exist?  The LC-IIe cards?  What about designing
> a 
> portable machine that would utilise the LC card as its brain?  Buy the
> computer,
> get a card from SUN or somewhere and plug it in... I mean, hey, if its a
> IIe
> on a card, then wouldn't that solve some design problems?

An interesting idea, but why?  How many people would buy such a thing? 
The notebook market is still (I think) by and large pretty high-end.  The
//e card most certainly is not.

-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)