Re: Applied Engineering, where is everyone now?

[profdredd <profdredd@my-deja.com>]

In article <20000120015838.03694.00000634@ng-fw1.aol.com>,
  supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> For example, he said that if they wanted
> to, they could make a cable interface between the IIGS
> SmartPort and the Commodore 1571 floppy drive (which
> they make a clone for).

Uh, I think you may be referring to the Commodore 1581 3.5" 800k drive.
CMD manufactures a model FD2000 3.5" 1.6Mb drive which can emulate the
C 1581 in 800k mode. Of course the 1.6Mb FD2000 has other cool features
C= never dreamed of  :)

The C= 1571 is a 5.25" floppy drive which can indeed r/w MS-DOS disks,
as can the C=1581 and CMD FD2000. The original intent was to support
the C-128's little-used CP/M mode. As everyone knows by now, MS-DOS was
a rip-off of CP/M.

> But he pointed out that CMD did not believe they would sell
> the same number of units to IIGS users as they would to
> Commodore folks.
>
> By this logic, why do we see so many Focus drives being
> bought from Alltech?  I would venture to say that more
> Focus drives have been sold in the last few months by
> Alltech than SuperCPUs have been sold by CMD.

Indeed many Focus drives have been sold. But comparing sales to that of
the SuperCPU is like comparing, well, Apples and oranges. The cost-of-
production for a SuperCPU is MUCH greater than Alltech has for the
Focus. Since these costs must be passed on to end-users, not everyone
can afford a SuperCPU.

It's worth mentioning that CMD has tried to sell Apple II hardware with
little success. While they're the best C= company in the world (IMHO)
they're just not as well known to Apple II users.
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