Re: AE Vulcan.

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <38EFC776.72D2F238@microsoft.bellsouth.net>,
tarage  <no_spam_tarage@microsoft.bellsouth.net> wrote:

>> >WHAT WE TRULY NEED MORE THAN EVER is a way to add a hard drive to the IIC
>> >or IIC PLUS!!!!
>>
>> This is akin to nubus Pmac owners wanting a card to do USB. Since PCI Pmacs
>> are in the low three digits (I got a mint 8500/180 176/2gig/8x CD box for
>> $500 back in November) there is zero chance of ever seeing a nubus PCI card.
>> I also got a 7100 stripper box for $50 last December. I'm not worried about
>> putting USB in it. But I could spend $40 for a PCI card for the 8500.
>>
>
>Zero chance, by whose definition? Where there's a will, there's a way.

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.

>The big problem as I see it is the fact that the IIc was designed as a closed box
>architechture. There's simply not room inside the thing to add cards. But, it
>does have the port for an external disk drive...I'm not sure offhand what the
>capabilities of the IIc are, but why not somehow fool it into thinking that this
>is just a giant HFS disk drive?

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.
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