Re: System 5 or System 6?

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

> : I am not joking. Your RAM card is a noisy wreck. Although many people
> : get by with it on unaccelerated systems, it wreaks havoc with
> : accelerators.  You're asking the CYA/FPI to drive 4 banks x 8 dram
> : chips (of unknown specifications due being SIMMs) on top of everything
> : the CYA/FPI is already is doing.  This is why ALL of the other cards
> : designed to go into the Apple IIGS memory slot have bus transcievers
> : and hex inverters; they keep the signals clean and strong.  You left
> : everything off to save a few pennies on a couple of $.30 components
> : (either that or out of ignorance).  Believe me, if Apple could have
> : saved a few dimes on tens of thousands of Apple IIGS Memory Expansion
> : Cards, they would have.  Apple II users put a lot of time and money
> : into their computing hobby, they don't deserve to be short changed.
> :
> : - Paul
>
> First off, Paul, you are the first person who has had a problem. My machine
> is fully functional with my ram card, and works fine. Yes, it is
> accelerated.
> All but 2 slots have cards in them, and I've had no problems whatsoever
> with it. Ask the 150 people who have my cards if they are a problem, and
> on top of that, you should apologive to Vince Briel for insulting him as
> well.
> He and I worked on this card together. Also, most people would make this
> type of comment in private, not on a public forum. To me, you're just a big
> jerk. So, bug off. Thanks.
>
> Bill Garber

Hmmm, I should feel so belittled for ONLY being a "big jerk", I hope to
some day to move to the "big dick" status you appointed to Tony Diaz on
the KFest list after he very cordially asked you to quit spamming it.


These types of comments NEED to be made in public in order to protect
the public interest.  Junk hardware should NOT be supported while well
designed products absolutely should.  Your product breaks about every
rule outlined in Apple's hardware interface design guidelines, thus it
falls into the first category.  Likewise, good products arn't covered
with tobacco tar when they arrive.  I only made the mistake of
mentioning this now, when in retrospect, I should have mentioned it
after you produced another batch of cards.  You should consider this a
favor and leave it.

Vince Briel gave you a logical design for the card (I don't believe for
a minute that he's responsible for the horrendous PCB layout).
Although functional on paper, you did not choose to implement the
proper interface precautions to make your card 100% reliable in a real
world environment.  It might have worked fine had you used (8) 1M x
4's, however 4v logic levels (due to lack of drive to the pins of all
32 DRAM chips) don't equate to a reliable implementation.

- Paul