Re: IIgs SCSI Card

[Charles Broderick <chasbrod@concentric.net>]

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> "Joel Ostroski" <junkmail@youlazybum.com> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >    I am looking for a apple scsi card for my IIgs (ROM3).  I have a friend
> >willing to give me a hard disk drive but of course I need the card.  I have
> >seen the cards for sale on some sites and it is too expensive!  (I do not
> >have a lot of money).  EBay is ridiculous cause people just get into a
> >bidding frenzy and the prices get foolish.  Is there anyone oput there that
> >would be willing to sell me a scsi card for the iigs for cheap?  Or be nice
> >and be willing to trade?
> 
> Due to the number of cards and the capability of the
> Apple High Speed SCSI card, they are worth $60 to
> $70 used.  That's about half the original value.  And
> that's what they go for most of the time.  That's not
> unreasonable.  So it might actually be cheaper to
> get a 500MB Focus drive from Alltech Electronics
> http://www.allelec.com/ and save the trouble.  The
> Alltech card goes for $79 and comes with the OS
> preinstalled plus a library of shareware and freeware.
> Should you want to upgrade in the future, the card
> can support a drive up to 2GB in size.  You simply
> swap the larger notebook mechanism for the one
> on the card.

I ordered a Focus drive, got backorderd, then scored a SCSI card (Apple
HS type). While I like both toys and plan to use them for slightly
different purposes, if all you want is a harddrive, I think the Focus
card is the way to go. It is completely "plug and play" and comes
installed with gobs of good software, including OS 6.0.1 and Marinetti
and Wolfenstein 3d, etc.

And for only 79 bucks, it is quite a deal.