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- From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Zip Chips
- Message-ID: <9212220211.AA03370@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 02:11:05 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility
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- The following revelation escaped Clayten Hamacher's lips:
- >
- > I was thinking of buying a used (1 month old) Zip 8/16 for $90 Canadian..
-
- Wow, that's a *damn* good price, assuming there's nothing wrong with
- the Zip, of course. I paid $150 for mine about 18 months ago...
-
- > I was told that this is a good price for zips and that if I wanted I could
- > later get an upgrade to take it to 19/1meg...
-
- Yeah, plug in a few more magical chips and you get 24-bit colour and
- 16-bit stereo sound too. :-/ Someone was taking you for a ride on that
- one. The fastest the ZipGS will go without modification is 12.5 MHz with
- 64K of cache. That config has plenty of speed to spare, especially if
- you're just coming from 2.8 MHz. ;-)
-
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