Re: Rarest Card

[Joe <joko@nospam.com>]

Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> wrote:

> The card has been demoed in a far far far town in Kansas but a few
> months after, the project has been cancelled because of the coming of
> the Second Sight which offered compatibility with Apple II video
> modes, an option not sustained by RezTek.

I don't seem to remember seeing it demo'ed at KansasFest, but Bill St 
Pierre had a booth at one of the last (maybe the last?) of the huge 
AppleFests that were held downstairs at the San Francisco Civic 
Auditorium. To put a date on it, that might have been the year that Jean 
Luis Gasque (sp??) stunned everyone with the first FTA demo we'd ever 
seen - Nucleas?

As I remember it, Bill had a monitor on a stand, which had a curtain on it 
so you couldn't see what the monitor was connected to. But, it was 
displaying graphics unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

Eventually he lifted the curtain, and there was a standard IIGS. With a 
TurboRez card in it. At the time, it was not complete, and I don't know 
that it ever reallly was completed.

The next time I heard from Bill was when the phone call came..."you can 
have all this stuff or it's going to the dump..." and he dropped off 
whatever he had.

And, in the next few days, I'll try to find whatever it was he brought by 
that day.

Again, it's not doing me any good here, and if I can get it into the hands 
of someone that can use it, I will. So far as I know, Tony has the only 
TurboRez in existance, although there's a chance I have one too (but I 
doubt it).

Somehere here, I do have several blank cards, with a TurboRez name 
silk-screened onto them. Again, they are blank: no chips, no wires, no 
nothing.

Joe Kohn