Re: AE Vulcan.

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <20000409112640.09601.00000669@ng-bh1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

>>Since IIgses can be found in dumpsters etc nowadays, who would consider
>>building a IIc compatible hard disk again? Makes no sense. People who don't
>>want to stay even in the current half decade get left behind.
>
>Then why does Alltech bother with Focus drives and Sirius cards?
>The Sirius is Alltech designed (by Tony Diaz) remember?  Why
>do car hobby places sell fiberglass body panels for the old type
>of Volkswagen Beetle when these cars can be found for dumpster
>prices?  Why does CMD sell the SuperCPU 20Mhz accelerators
>for the C64 and C128?  You can find Commodores in dumpsters
>too.
>
>Why is that?
>
>There IS such a thing as a niche market and there IS such a thing
>as a hobbyist who would be interested in buying products for a
>classic.
>
>As hard as it is for "I want to jump on the newest bestest
>bandwagen" types to understand, you can have your new machine
>and still love the old.  And I'm not just saying keeping the old one
>around.  I'm saying equipping and using the old one.

That's a bit different. If you want to actually use long dead products, it's
only logical to get the best one. Like for example how my ROM 3 has been
on my desk forever while the Mac next to it has gone from Q700 to Q840av to 
PM8500. There is no getting a newer IIgs. Anyone still wanting to use a II 
should have the newest there is, especially since you can find even that in a
dumpster nowadays. Then factor in how stuff is actually out there for using
hard disks in that ROM 3 while IIc versions are incredibly hard to come by.

I occasionally bring out the IIc plus, IIe, grey key IIc with a 1 mb slinky
card, LCD screen, CT-20c hard disk, III plus, original ][s, Mac XL, yada
yada out to fiddle with, but I'm not inclined to worry about how there are
no new products for 'em any more. For tinker factor, they're fine as is.
In particular I rarely use that CT-20c since years ago I lost a power supply
to a power flicker. No way possible of replacing it again.
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