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From: sjklafke@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott James Klafke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: applefest - Gassee Guffaw
Summary: Zip Chip died!
Keywords: Zip, No Luck, WHEN!, Lifetime Guarantee?!?
Message-ID: <247@uwm.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 89 18:24:05 GMT
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In article <628@studsys.mu.edu> jetzer@studsys.UUCP (Mike Jetzer) writes:
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."

Zip Technologies current phone/address is:

		5601 W. Slauson Ave.  Suite 190
		Culver City, California  90230
		(213) 337-1734

They really are having problems with ALL of their chips. They have had my 4mhz
chip since August 13th, and repetative calls to them have gotten me nowhere.
Everytime they promise 2-4 weeks more, and they say that (in a semi-snotty 
tone) since they cannot get the RAM they need, they cannot send the chips out.
I guess they have something like a 7% failure rate with the 4mhz. Even the
people who have had their chips for a while might run into problems. I have had
mine about 8 months, and then it died. 

Remember: A lifetime guarantee of a product also means the lifetime of a
	  company! I hope that is not the case!


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