Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

jonrelay@napanet.net (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>> I used to participate daily in this newsgroup but I left it behind
>> about half a year ago.  What has happened in the Apple II
>> world since then?  Scanning the ng, I noticed that there are
>> far less new IIGS "power users" than before and almost no
>> mention of Alltech Electronics.
>> 
>> Are Alltech Electronics and the Focus and Sirius cards now
>> history?  This is sad.  Now all I see is 8-bit Apple II talk and
>> most of the IIGS threads talk about using the IIGS as an
>> 8-bit computer (every IIGS thread I see mentions the use of
>> ProDOS as the operating system).
>
>Alltech Electronics is still here.

That's good to hear.  The reason I asked was because I read in
several different threads about people looking to use IDE hard
drives in the IIGS and talk of either building one or getting one
from ///SHH Systeme, which is in Germany.

Why not the Focus drive which Alltech makes and sells?  This
is strange.  It makes me want to start telling every new user
about the Focus again, but I don't have the time.  Amazingly,
csa2 is still busier than many newsgroups for so called
"modern" computers and thus is quite hard to follow.  ;-)