Re: Zip Chips

[90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Clayten Hamacher's lips:
> 
> I was thinking of buying a used (1 month old) Zip 8/16 for $90 Canadian..

    Wow, that's a *damn* good price, assuming there's nothing wrong with
the Zip, of course.  I paid $150 for mine about 18 months ago...

> I was told that this is a good price for zips and that if I wanted I could
> later get an upgrade to take it to 19/1meg...

    Yeah, plug in a few more magical chips and you get 24-bit colour and
16-bit stereo sound too.  :-/  Someone was taking you for a ride on that
one.  The fastest the ZipGS will go without modification is 12.5 MHz with
64K of cache.  That config has plenty of speed to spare, especially if
you're just coming from 2.8 MHz.  ;-)

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