Re: Where to find HARD DRIVES nowadays???

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <39788dd6@news1.svn.net>, Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net> wrote:
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><rocketusa@delphi.com> wrote in message news:8l9lpd$cpv$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
>> HELP!
>>
>> In the early 90s I had no trouble getting these things on the cheap, but
>> now it seems really tough to get a simple hard drive for an Apple II.
>>
>> Alltech says they are out of the Focus drives and are unsure if they
>> will get anymore
>
>You should be able to buy an old Toshiba 386 laptop or similiar with a 2.5"
>hard disk, and put that on a Focus. I've got a stack of drives I've
>scrounged that way. I've also found 4  SCSI controllers in the past year,
>but I waste a lot of time searching the galaxy for interesting antique
>computers and parts.

That's zero help if you don't have the card it goes on tho. Ditto if I were
to talk about getting a 9.1 gig Seagate drive brand new for $58 just today.
No card = no dice for an Apple II.

Man I wish when the local dealer had their "garage sale" I woulda snatched
every one of their $20 HS SCSI cards. But I only got one since I didn't
foresee any need for more. Obviously, that card will go nowhere.

>You can also use a Mac as a fileserver, and boot the IIgs's from it.
>Caveats: I haven't any experience with a Focus, nor Appletalk on the IIgs,
>but I've read what experienced users have said.

You can only do that with Appleshare 2 or 3, not exactly on every street
corner. My copy of 3.0 went into retirement along with the system 7 running 
68Ks which ran it. Haven't tried on my 7100 running 8.6. I paid $400 for
it when I got it (a deal since it sold for $1300ish at the time) so it'd
take some bux to talk me out of it.
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