Re: Is there a market for EtherWave adapter clones?

[Bill Buckels <bbuckels@escape.ca>]

On Oct 21, 8:02 pm, pitz <pitz.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would this be worth cloning?  They are cheap, but sometimes rare (I
> know that's quite a contradiction).  Average price in eBay is around
> $30.  With the threads about netatalk being able to talk AppleTalk
> over Ethernet, I suppose this could be useful for Apple IIe/IIgs as
> well as for classic Macs that do not have Ethernet ports/adapters.
> Provides them a way to connect to the Internet through a MacIP gateway
> running on a box that only has an Ethernet port (e.g., Linux running
> netatalk).

Only a small handful of people will ever use an apple2 on a network.
The number will dwindle as time goes on. Eventually there will be
none. That is your market. I cannot tell you how many of these people
already have all the adapters that they need. Probably most.