Re: IIgs accelerators

["Sheane and Bonnie Meikle" <action1@telusplanet.net>]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote in message
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> It wasn't that long ago that the ZipGS went out of production.
> As I remember it, they had used up on hand supplies of a custom
> chip and I believe they would have had to order a considerable
> quantity to get any (was it 10,000 minimum order?). Also sales
> were poor. I recall someone mentioning they were down to one
> last accelerator and about 3 weeks later someone posted that he'd
> bought it. Even then it was purchased by someone that had one
> and only wanted a spare. If half of the people that posted they
> wanted one in the month after it was out of production had had
> actually bought one when they had a chance it'd still be available.
> I imagine buying up the rights to the ZipGS wouldn't be too costly
> but even if it was free, I doubt if you could ever break even. Maybe
> yourself and 20 or so others would actually buy one but that's about
> it.

I bet that with the way they're snapped up on ebay for a premium you'd sell
more than 20. I would think( and remember I'm no tecky) by looking at them
that you would be better off going with a design closer to the transwarp or
(now I don't know if this can be done) making an accelerator like the IIe
has that takes the place of the cpu and writing a system extension that
supports it.

again I must remind you that I'm no tecky and might be barking up the wrong
tree, but if they can make products like second vision and the turbo ide
card, which make the gs do thing it wasn't supposed to, then somebody out
there has the brain power to pull this off.

Sheane