Re: AppleWorks 3.0 for Apple IIe? anyone?

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

>>Altech is selling internal 20 meg hard drive cards for $59? Really? 
>>Anyone have info on these? They any good?

>   Yep, it is the Focus HardCard which has actually been available
>for a number of years I believe (though not always through Alltech).
>It is simply a 2.5" IDE hardrive mounted to a 50 pin Apple II slot
>card, with sizes ranging from 20 MB up to 800 MB. One limitation of
>this setup is the controller does not do DMA, so it will obviously
>be slower than an Apple HS SCSI or RamFAST.

Be aware the the current 20 MB drive has a small drive, about 1.25 x 1.5 
inches in size and the connecter is mounted at a 90 degree angle compared
to the larger sized drives. Also there are no straps holding this drive to
the card. If you plan on going to a larger drive in the future be sure to get
a card that has the hard drive mounted with the staps. 

I have purchased about a dozen of these drives and am well satisfied
with their performance on IIe and IIgs machines used in school settings.
The fact that they are completely internal is a large plus is this case.

On my own IIe I found the 60MB drive that I use to be a little faster than
the Apple SCSI Rev C and 40MB external that it replaced.

Owen Aaland