Re: AE Vulcan.

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

:>Zero chance by definition of anyone who would design, manufacture, and
:>market it. And, as people saying fat chance of a nubus USB card would point
:>out, the size of the market would mean it'd sell for astronomical prices in 
:>order for the maker to get any return on their investment. You could say
:>the same for any Apple II product, or 68K Mac product for that matter.
:>
:>Like I said, I have a perfectly functioning Chinook drive. So there is already
:>such a thing. No one will make it since it'd sell too little and cost too
:>much. So fat chance. On a related note, is there anyone left making II
:>products any more? Sequential folded last I heard and they were about the
: last.

: So what do you want, Randy?  Do you just expect the IIGS market
: to dry up and die?  Is that what you want?  Right now right here?

You somehow went from talking IIc specific hard disks to the entire IIgs
market, but whatever. Doesn't matter what I want, I can neither make nor
break it myself. It's fairly broken nowadays.

: Just because you don't want to buy anything from Alltech or ///SHH
: does not mean nobody else does.  Why spread doom and gloom?

I bought some stuff from Alltech not overly long ago.

: As for the Chinook drive, Sequential basically took over production
: of that.  And who knows, maybe Alltech will take over production
: now.  Sell adapters maybe.  Did you know that the Focus drive used
: to cost around $500 average before Alltech took over from the old
: owner?  It was Alltech that lowered the price to less than $100 and
: they've been rewarded many times over with a hot selling IIGS item.
: Half the new IIGS users, maybe more, that I contact email back
: and tell me they purchase the Focus.  So what's the keep the same
: thing from happening with a revived Alltech Chinook drive?

Again, you're talking two things. I would think that anyone wanting to put
a II to actual use would want a IIgs nowadays. It doesn't matter what a
IIc hard disk cost, it'd be several times (at least) what a used IIgs box
would cost now. There'd be far more bang for the buck in putting part of that
money toward a IIgs instead of toward IIc specific hardware. It only makes 
sense to make anything for IIgses at this point. 
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