Re: Trying to cram GS/OS into a walnut

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Stingray <stingray@webzone.net> wrote:

>John wrote:
>
>> Yea, if you can get them...  Been waiting on mine now for about 3 weeks with
>> still no drive in hand.  Not to mention the memory that they sent to me
turned
>> out to be the wrong chips.  About ready to abandon the whole idea of getting
>> the GS to work and put it in the closet with the other one.
>
>John, I feel for you! It hurts when you're all ready to get a system together
and
>you get stuck waiting for parts. I got really close to buying an Alltec drive
and
>changed my mind at the last minute when I found an Apple High Speed SCSI card
>availble. Reading about the run around that you've gotten from Alltec makes me
>happy that happened. I was still considering buying some other stuff from
them, but
>not any more. I think I'll stick to the more reliable used market. Boy does
that
>sound odd!

I feel I must say something in defense of Alltech.  Alltech is
honest and they always send the stuff one orders from them.  It
is true however, that they can at times be slow.  It might be due
to the fact that the components for some of their Apple II products
are not readily available.  I am not making excuses for them and
in fact I should probably modify my IIGS Tour message to caution
users to have Alltech ship by regular UPS rather than rush.

In the Apple II world, Alltech is top notch.  Compared to what
Sequential used to be, Alltech would get a 10 and Sequential
a 1 (1 to 10 scale with 1 being the worst).  In the mail order
business overall, they'd probably get an 8 or 7.

Sometimes slow yet honest and dependable would probably
best describe Alltech.

Give them a chance and you'll see how well designed and
constructed Alltech hardware is.  Ask anyone with a Sirius
or Focus card.

One user emailed me that after finding out his Focus needed
an extra delay in his IIGS, he emailed Tony Diaz and Tony
sent out a new EPROM in the mail for him.  Thus, rather
than sending back the card, the user could keep using the
Focus while he waited for the modification.

Tony Diaz's web site is http://www.apple2.org/