Re: Rarest Card

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 23 oct, 00:14, Joe <j...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> > The card has been demoed in a far far far town in Kansas but a few
> > months after, the project has been cancelled because of the coming of
> > the Second Sight which offered compatibility with Apple II video
> > modes, an option not sustained by RezTek.
>
> I don't seem to remember seeing it demo'ed at KansasFest, but Bill St
> Pierre had a booth at one of the last (maybe the last?) of the huge
> AppleFests that were held downstairs at the San Francisco Civic
> Auditorium. To put a date on it, that might have been the year that Jean
> Luis Gasque (sp??) stunned everyone with the first FTA demo we'd ever
> seen - Nucleas?
>

Tony corrected me also on the location: Applefest and not Kansasfest.

Nucleus by FTA was demoed by Jean-Louis Gassée or some other people of
Apple at several fairs.

> As I remember it, Bill had a monitor on a stand, which had a curtain on it
> so you couldn't see what the monitor was connected to. But, it was
> displaying graphics unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
>
> Eventually he lifted the curtain, and there was a standard IIGS. With a
> TurboRez card in it. At the time, it was not complete, and I don't know
> that it ever reallly was completed.
>

I can't remember in which magazine I have seen them or if it was on
his "flyers". Somebody remembers?

> The next time I heard from Bill was when the phone call came..."you can
> have all this stuff or it's going to the dump..." and he dropped off
> whatever he had.
>
> And, in the next few days, I'll try to find whatever it was he brought by
> that day.
>

Has William ever explained why he cancelled the card? As I wrote
earlier, I remember he said that was because of the Second Sight and
that the market could not handle two cards, is that correct?

> Again, it's not doing me any good here, and if I can get it into the hands
> of someone that can use it, I will. So far as I know, Tony has the only
> TurboRez in existance, although there's a chance I have one too (but I
> doubt it).
>

So... is TurboRez a rare card? Nevertheless, if there are two, I'd be
delighted to have one ;-)

Tony,
May I ask for a picture of it please?

> Somehere here, I do have several blank cards, with a TurboRez name
> silk-screened onto them. Again, they are blank: no chips, no wires, no
> nothing.
>

Joe, you remember my postal address ;-)

> Joe Kohn

Antoine