Msg: 114 *Conference*

06-22-91 20:11:08

From: BOB GASKINS

To : RICHARD HANSON

Subj: REPLY RE: M100 EXPANSION

Thanks for sending to me the thread on  M100 expansion RAM.
                                     
Okay!  So I understand about the  "prototype every time" syndrome.  But  it's
still incredible that prices are so high when you consider that chip prices  
are so low!!! (see my reply to Rick  Lopes this date).
                                       
I'm willing to PAY for M100 expansion  RAM (and I'm sure others would be, too) 
-- But I don't want to pay more than  once!!!  That's a big problem in the DOS 
world -- and a medium-sized problem in  the MAC world.  But it shouldn't be a  
problem at all in ANY world!!
                                        
And now I'm thoroughly confused about  the NODE  Datapak.  I thought it  
connected to the System Bus, too.
                                       
Rick, you could do all M100/M102 users (
devotees) a great service by clearing up the mysteries of RAM upgrades.  None
of  us wants to carry around a PDD  everywhere we go.  But some of us DO!   And
none of us wants to "connect" to a  Mac or a DOS clone everytime we want to  do
some intense number-crunching or text procesing.  Both systems are much more  
complicated than the simple, lowly M100/
M102.
                                        
I've used both DOS and Mac, and I still  love my M100 the best!  If only I had
more storage in the M100 I would be  happy to put up with it's "snail's pace" 
processor!!!  In fact, I'd be  thrilled!!!
                                        
But 32k -- really only 28k of actual  storage -- just isn't enough.
                                        
Perhaps Michael Daigle's "Tandy 300" (
the 'wish computer' described in  'Portable 100' magazine a few months ago
) will be the answer -- but somehow I  don't think the folks in Fort Worth will
get the message.
                                        
And what about UltraSoft?????  Are there REALLY some innovations there?  (It
irks me that they aren't on this BBS).
                                        
Rick, thanks for the great BBS.
                                        
     -bob.