Re: Want an Apple I workalike?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber replied:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>20030908223812.13197.00000486@mb-m15.aol.com">news:20030908223812.13197.00000486@mb-m15.aol.com...

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>> I remain open to the idea that someone may discover a "market"
>> among Apple II enthusiasts--like the CFFA card--but viable ideas
>> in this area are few and far between, it seems.
>
>Since you brought up the CFFA card, it has not been the great success
>that the first run was. He has quite a number of them left. AFAIK, he
>has over 100 of them left. Would be nice to see some of them modded
>to allow the use of IDE CD-Rom drives, or to use them with smaller
>CF cards in the II+.

I'm sorry to hear that he has apparently saturated the market.

I suppose that that provides a pretty good indication of the size
of the "user" Apple II market that is willing to spend some money
on their machines--my guess is that about a third of those who
are potentially "willing" bought one or more CFFA cards, which
would imply a total market size of perhaps three hundred or so.

Since almost all of the CFFA's "personality" is in the EPROM,
it should be "a small matter of programming" for a motivated
person to extend the range of IDE peripherals that it can attach.

However, since 128MB FlashCards are now available for about
$30 (after rebates) or less, I don't think there's much need to
go smaller.  ;-)  Fry's just advertised a 256MB for $25!

-michael

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