Re: Applied Engineering, where is everyone now?

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John)]

Ya gotta admit though, Alltech probably hasn't been hurt too badly business 
wise by having their name, homepage, and mention of the FocusDrives a daily 
occurance in the newsgroups! <Grin>

In article <20000120015838.03694.00000634@ng-fw1.aol.com>, supertimer@aol.com 
(Supertimer) wrote:
>god23@heaven.org (Bart) wrote:
>
>>>answers emails.  ///SHH Systeme also makes cache upgrades
>>
>>So...for those of us who would like to also experience this and were not lucky
>
>>enough to buy an original, does ///SHH have plans to runn off a new batch of 
>>TWGS?
>
>Sadly, no.  No one has the motivation to make a new IIGS
>accelerator card.  I tried to get CMD, the makers of the
>SuperCPU accelerators for the Commodore 64 and the
>Commodore 128 to make some products for the IIGS.  The
>representative emailed me saying that some products were
>indeed feasable.  For example, he said that if they wanted
>to, they could make a cable interface between the IIGS
>SmartPort and the Commodore 1571 floppy drive (which
>they make a clone for).  The benefit of this is that the 1571
>can read and write MS-DOS MFM formatted disks.  But
>he pointed out that CMD did not believe they would sell
>the same number of units to IIGS users as they would to
>Commodore folks.
>
>By this logic, why do we see so many Focus drives being
>bought from Alltech?  I would venture to say that more
>Focus drives have been sold in the last few months by
>Alltech than SuperCPUs have been sold by CMD.  IIGS
>users seem to be buying plenty of hardware.