To: Alex Lee Re: Re: Help Identifying IIGS RAM Card By: Alex Lee to comp.sys.apple2 on Fri Jan 08 2010 04:26 pm > I suspected it might have been, but I'm wondering why it didn't include > the same markings as the 'authentic' Applied Ingenuity card? Cloners loved these kind of cards -- straightforward design, low production costs... Even if AI was still business at the time, the cloner didn't have much to worry about. Sean Fahey www.a2central.com bbs.a2central.com
I wouldn't have thought the IIGS market was big enough to warrant cloning, but it's been an interesting discovery for me. It could have been that the Australian IIGS Users Group, or their 'GS Sales & Exports' division, commissioned the manufacture of the cloned cards when they had enough interested parties back in the day. I do remember our family felt upgrading beyond the 1.25 meg we had was too expensive until this cloned card was available.
-- - Alex http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/