Re: Apple //GS Sales Demo.

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <317gf0$dj1@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>,
James L Brookes <jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>In article <CtMoHC.EEt@crash.cts.com>, Randy Shackelford <shack@crash.cts.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I'd like to check out the animated Star Wars demo I heard was shown when the
>>IIgs debuted in Boston.
>
>The so-called "Star Wars demo" was a demo created to show off the High Speed
>SCSI card.  It's about 40 seconds or so of greyscale images from a scene
>in Star Wars, spooled from disk directly to the video screen.  It was very
>smooth, but it took up a about 40mb of the 80mb hard drive Jim Merrit (I think
>it was Jim, this was a fairly long time ago) brought it on.

Musta been reusing the old one from the debut or something. I was living in 
Boston when the IIgs came out and knew some big wigs in the Boston Computer
Society who got to see the demo and told me about it. I also was told that it
took a handmade 4 mb memory card in the machine to run i, in the days when no
one could buy such a card. I wasn't in Boston when the High Speed SCSI came 
out.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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