Re: Where's the EXPO news ??

[unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <25APR199321264245@utkvx.utk.edu> sadasiva@utkvx.utk.edu (Sadasivam, Krishna Madur) writes:
>Well....wasn't the Expo West show this weekend?? What were some of the
>new goodies that were released? 

Here's an article I tried to post yesterday but the server's disk was full:

In <C60n7K.G8s@eis.calstate.edu> sjensen@eis.calstate.edu (Steve Jensen) writes:
>You should be able to get the Sequential Systems card with 4 megs
>for about $135. (I paid $140.)

Actually, GS RAM cards were one thing that there was a bit of a price war
over at Apple Expo West... There were prices of $113 and $120 for 4 meg
populated cards (dunno if both were the Sequential card).

The show was definitely worth going to, for one day at least.. [unfortunately
not worth going 3 days to like I used to do for AppleFest]..  There were
lots of Mac companies (obviously to be expected), and a very very low turnout
in general.  Was this advertized in InCider?

Twas interesting to meet Jawaid and a bunch of other net people.

Heineman was selling a fairly cool new hard-drive-on-a-card.  Sounds similar
to the CirTech one that was around a few years ago and the other
instance(s) of this idea.. However, this one was priced fairly reasonably..
$299 for 40 megs and $399 for 80 megs.  At first I thought that was outrageous,
but if you consider the card itself for other hard drives is at least $100,
then it's getting reasonable.. The hard drive also spins down after a
user-definable period of time.. if someone came out with a kit to make your
II or GS portable this would definitely be useful. So now all we need
is a case, RGB compatible color LCD screen, and batteries. [sarcasm]
anyway, the drive is IDE and he said it was between the speed of the Apple DMA
and the RamFAST... supports Smartport too so even if you don't have the
native driver installed you see all partitions.
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