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Re: Are there any 65816 card schematics?
Tristan Mumford wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Fun fact: International postage usually works out a lot less expensive
than national postage over here.
Ouch!
Yeah. It's rare I buy anything (besides groceries etc) in Australia. Even
sent airmail parcels work out a lot cheaper. And seem to arrive faster than
something sent from a couple of hundred km away. Never quite figured that
one out.
Example:
I Buy an item online from a store in HK. from purchase date to delivery it's
usually less than a week.
So I anticipate the bluetooth USB dongle (HK) to arrive before the TT3
(Melbourne) although I purchased them on the same day.
I've even had things Fed-Ex'd from the US in a week.
The US Postal Service is a traditional butt of jokes, but I have
been very impressed with their combination of reliability and
reasonable cost. My favorite example is the Priority Mail "flat rate
box" (actually two differently shaped boxes) each about 1/2 cubic foot,
no weight limit, and $8.10 from anywhere in the US to anywhere else!
For dense items, that is a *great* deal--I just sent 9 pounds of stuff
that way across the country for delivery in 2-3 days!
Priority Mail doesn't offer tracking (just delivery confirmation), but,
on the other hand, I haven't had the USPS lose any mail in literally
thousands of cases. On the other hand, both UPS and FedEx have lost
items for me, and I've used them less than a hundred times--and they
always try to blame me for their mistakes. They *need* tracking, even
when it doesn't help!
Although this seems pretty off-topic, it has broad application to
the shipping of Apple gear. I wish more vendors just used Priority
Mail. ;-)
On the other hand, perhaps you prefer designing a coprocessor! ;-)
I'd actually like it both ways! I've always wanted a IIgs, and a
processor board for one of the 6502 based apple 2s.
Cool.
What can I say, I love the equipment of my memories, but I also love
mercilessly altering and upgrading things to my specs.
Completely understandable--and great fun!
-michael
NadaNet networking for Apple II computers!
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