Re: AE Vulcan.

[tarage <no_spam_tarage@microsoft.bellsouth.net>]

Randy Shackelford wrote:

> In article <38EFC776.72D2F238@microsoft.bellsouth.net>,
> tarage  <no_spam_tarage@microsoft.bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> >> >WHAT WE TRULY NEED MORE THAN EVER is a way to add a hard drive to the IIC
> >> >or IIC PLUS!!!!
> >>
> >> This is akin to nubus Pmac owners wanting a card to do USB. Since PCI Pmacs
> >> are in the low three digits (I got a mint 8500/180 176/2gig/8x CD box for
> >> $500 back in November) there is zero chance of ever seeing a nubus PCI card.
> >> I also got a 7100 stripper box for $50 last December. I'm not worried about
> >> putting USB in it. But I could spend $40 for a PCI card for the 8500.
> >>
> >
> >Zero chance, by whose definition? Where there's a will, there's a way.
>
> Zero chance by definition of anyone who would design, manufacture, and
> market it. And, as people saying fat chance of a nubus USB card would point
>

You don't have to look too hard to see the hobbyists crawling out of the woodworks,
designing new cards, and even accelerators. You haven't seen their pages, or read csa2
recently? And since these folk have designed, manufactured, and marketed their
material, well, you know what that means.

>
> >The big problem as I see it is the fact that the IIc was designed as a closed box
> >architechture. There's simply not room inside the thing to add cards. But, it
> >does have the port for an external disk drive...I'm not sure offhand what the
> >capabilities of the IIc are, but why not somehow fool it into thinking that this
> >is just a giant HFS disk drive?
>
> Like I said, I have a perfectly functioning Chinook drive. So there is already
> such a thing. No one will make it since it'd sell too little and cost too
> much. So fat chance. On a related note, is there anyone left making II
>

*clearing throat* Whenever you say "no-one" you set yourself up to be embarassed. I'm
not counting out the possibility yet. Since Jeff mentioned there's quite a few people
who'd like to see such a thing, we know the market is there.

> products any more? Sequential folded last I heard and they were about the last.
>

Yes. SSH Systems is one company that I know about. Sequential itself is dead, but when
they release their designs, there will be a market for whomever picks them up.  I know
I'm not the only one who'd like to get a new Ramfast or Second Sight...*drool*.


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