Re: Old Zip Technology magazine ad

[macdog <bigdog128@gmail.com>]

IIRC, the 10 mhz zipgs was mostly vaporware.  I think they advertised
it, but I do not remember them ever coming out with it.  If they did,
it must have been pretty late in the life cycle.

9 mhz is the max I remember seeing, back in the day.

Jamie.

On Feb 26, 9:30 pm, pitz <pitz.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Randomly went through some old inCider magazines.  I noticed an ad
> from the Feb 1992 issue by Zip Technology.  The first thing that stood
> out was the price for the ZipGS accelerator card back then.  Unlike
> some other stuff that have relatively lower prices today at eBay than
> they originally did, it looks like the ZipGS cards (and also the
> ZipChip) are selling higher than they originally cost -- but of
> course, I didn't consider inflation.
>
> The other thing that I noticed was that they offered a stock
> ZipGS-10.  I know that you could upgrade these cards manually today,
> but I didn't realized that Zip Technology offered a stock 10MHz
> version back then.  There was an inquiry on that in the newsgroup
> about a year ago:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_thread/thread/7...
>
> The scanned image is at:http://picasaweb.google.com/simplepractices/Random/photo#517147899939...
>
> /Peter