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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
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Reply-To: jetzer@studsys.UUCP (Mike Jetzer)
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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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."