Re: Where to find HARD DRIVES nowadays???

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Randy Shackelford <shack@southwind.net> wrote
>
> That's zero help if you don't have the card it goes on tho. Ditto if I
were
> to talk about getting a 9.1 gig Seagate drive brand new for $58 just
today.
> No card = no dice for an Apple II.
>

I thought it was just the 2.5" drives Alltech was unable to supply. Are they
out of the card too? You can buy it without the drive, from what others have
said.

> >You can also use a Mac as a fileserver, and boot the IIgs's from it.
> >Caveats: I haven't any experience with a Focus, nor Appletalk on the
IIgs,
> >but I've read what experienced users have said.
>
> You can only do that with Appleshare 2 or 3, not exactly on every street
> corner. My copy of 3.0 went into retirement along with the system 7
running
> 68Ks which ran it. Haven't tried on my 7100 running 8.6. I paid $400 for
> it when I got it (a deal since it sold for $1300ish at the time) so it'd
> take some bux to talk me out of it.

You should be able to pick up a Mac Classic II or similiar for $10 to run
Appleshare on. As far as finding a copy of Appleshare 3.0, just post a note
saying you're looking for it.
-Paul