Re: What happened to the Zip chip?!?!

[songman@intac.com (Robert Liptak)]

In comp.sys.apple2, ue554@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Steven H. Lichter) writes:
>I believe Alltech might still have some. I believe a couple of other
>places that sell Apple II hardware might also still have some.
>

     Last Year when I decided to buy a Accelerator especially with the telecom
program Spectrum and SIS (the first IIGS internet browser) and other programs I 
bought made me see that I really required it now. When I went to order the 
ZipGS from Alltech catalog I was told there was no more since the company that
makes them ceased production. (Everyone knows the reason why.) Next I did check
of all their other stores to see if they had one laying around on a shelf 
somewhere but no luck. I did happen to find a new one by luck laying on a 
company's shelf that no longer sold IIGS stuff from a post I did one for on the
UseNet. (I would have also been happy with a decent used one.) This rectified my
situation but I still was kicking myself because I should have bought it a long
time ago though I just assumed they would always be around. Since I recently
just came online last year I had alot of catching up to do and over the months I
learned why things had become like this. Because there are certain types of
people who just can't do things legally and have to try to pirate every 
software program that comes out is the reason which led to the downfall of 
companies to stop supporting the IIGS which of course then effected and killed
the support for new, more and better hardware. These people think they are self
justified to do what they do because feel they aren't doing anything wrong but
if someone pirated a program they spent months on making it and it then cost 
them millions in revenue they would be the first person crying foul which would
be hipocritical to say the least. It is these same people that want you to 
believe because Apple ceased production of the IIGS that this is the reason why
the support of software and hardware has declined over the years. They know
they are to blame for the declining support of the IIGS but they don't care
because it doesn't effect them directly. There was enough commercial companies
and independent people to keep a very strong support of the IIGS even after
Apple ceased production. It could have kept on going strong into the new  
century and we could have seen alot more exciting things and sooner as well.
Since we don't have that strong support base it takes longer to come out with
new things and because of this the IIGS will never see the full potential it 
could have but the companies and people that are still in the game will strive
to push and see what the IIGS is capable of. It always takes some ignorant
people to ruin things for the rest of the people but these people still haven't
learned yet and probably won't until it is all gone and then they will start to
complain because they will have nothing less to do since they killed the most
unique computer that could have just kept on going on into the new century and
has endless possibilities. 

						Rob 'Songman' Liptak