Re: IIgs and OS X filesharing solutions

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

>"Sheldon Simms" <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>pan.2004.02.23.06.05.59.975138@yahoo.com">news:pan.2004.02.23.06.05.59.975138@yahoo.com...

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>: The Apple II card is made in tiny lots and has no economies of
>scale.
>: Personally I'm amazed that it's only $145. Not only does that
>sound
>: cheap on an absolute scale, considering the manufacturing
>circumstances,
>: it's low relative to historical prices for Apple II peripheral
>cards.
>: If the LANce GS had been produced by Apple or Applied
>Engineering in
>: the late 80s it would have cost twice as much, in late 80s
>dollars.
>
>Also, if everyone owning a IIgs bought a LANceGS card then the
>software developers might see their way clear to work harder on
>getting a decent TCP/IP stack for it. Possibly even a graphical
>browser might become a reality. They won't make programs for
>hardware we aren't buying and using.

And they won't make information available so that others
can write programs for it.  ;-(

Hard to understand the logic there...

-michael

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