Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!marque!studsys!jetzer From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (Mike Jetzer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: applefest - Gassee Guffaw Message-ID: <628@studsys.mu.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 12:58:01 GMT References: <20256@gryphon.COM> <4048@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: jetzer@studsys.UUCP (Mike Jetzer) Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 26 In article <4048@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> mikes@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Michael Steele) writes: > Zip is fixing the final revision of their Zip GS accelerator Board >(note that this is a board not a chip) and will send it to mass production >within a month barring mishaps. The president of Zip gave a really long >spiel (looked like a used car salesman in a $500 suit). He explained that >the reason the Zip chip was in limbo was due to a problem with one of thier >chip manufactors (yeah, right:-) but now that they have 2 manufactors to >alleviate that product. He also said that they plan to go into the Mac and >IBM accelerator markets next year. The 8Mhz versions of the Zip Chip were >on display and very impressive and he mentioned the possibility for even >faster versions. Speaking of their 8 mhz chip ... Does anyone know if/when this will be shipping? I called them sometime in June, and they said that they'd be shipping by about July 15 (not that I believed them, because I waited over 9 months before I got my 4 mhz chip last year). I tried calling them back in July, but their phone number (800-628-FAST, or somesuch; at the time I knew the number) was disconnected with "no additional information available." Do they have a new number? Are they actually shipping the 8 mhz chip? -- Mike Jetzer "Hack first, ask questions later."