Re: Looking for a BlueDisk card

[John E Townsend <utownje@lexis-nexis.com>]

bobhays@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> In article <19990424233300.01575.00003039@ng-ck1.aol.com>,
>   supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> > ///SHH Systeme does make a card along the same lines as the Focus, called
> > Microdrive (two different versions too), but the BlueDisk is not this card.
> >
> > The BlueDisk is a PC *FLOPPY* disk controller.  With a BlueDisk, you
> > can use your 320k and 1.2MB 5.25" floppy and 760k, 1.44MB, and 2.88MB
> > PC compatible disk drives on your Apple II.
> >
> > Naturally, with the card and a PC drive, the Apple can read MS-DOS FAT
> > disks too, but you can also format ProDOS and HFS disks on the drives
> > connected to the card.
>
> Buy several of them, keep what you want and sell the remainder on eBay. I
> know I probably would buy one, probably so would a lot of others who live in
> the US. Just a thought.

That's a good idea.  If anyone else wants to get in on this, let me know by email
and we'll work something out.  The net cost for each one will probably be around
$140, depending on how many ways we can split the shipping and exchange costs.
Thanks!

--
John E. Townsend
Sr. Software Engineer          "Machines should work;
LEXIS-NEXIS                     people should think."
Dayton, OH, USA                        -- IBM Polyanna Principle
utownje@lexis-nexis.com