Re: Want an Apple I workalike?

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote

> > I remain open to the idea that someone may discover a "market"
> > among Apple II enthusiasts--like the CFFA card--but viable ideas
> > in this area are few and far between, it seems.

I really wonder how well an ethernet card that would work in both a IIe and
a IIgs would sell. I know that there is the LanceGS but there are no drivers
for the IIe, and it's kind of expensive. If they could drop the price to
under $100.00, provide IIe drivers AND finish the Contiki port, I think it
might sell fairly well. I don't know what the "magic" dollar mark is for a
card like this -$30 - $50 is my guess but if the card was cheap enough, and
useful on both the IIe and IIgs, I think there would be a bigger market than
what the CFFA indicates.

The thing about offering a Compact Flash card to the existing Apple II
community is that most of the people who want larger storage space for their
II's already have it. I have a Sider II, a ProFile, and RamFast / Apple HS
SCSI drives for my II's. Why would I spend more than $100.00 for a card that
only works (on my IIe) under ProDos 8? However, an ethernet card is
something that I would very much like to have for my IIe, and I would spend
$50-$100 for it IF there was a way that I could use it. Setting up a BBS or
a Contiki based web page would be sweet. I know that I can hook it up
through my PC but that's not as interesting.