Re: Hard disc wanted....

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"Richard Banks" <rtb8@aber.ac.uk> wrote:

>Sorry if this has allready been covered or if I am doing this wrong - I'm
>new to News. Please don't flame me.
>
>Does anyone know where I can get either a SCSI card or a hard 
>disc on a card for my newly aquired 2GS? 
>I've tried all the address on apple2.org's list of suppliers,
>and either they are 'waiting for more controler chips' or they
>don't do mail order to the United Kingdom. The most promising
>lead I had was Alltech, but they said they'd email me as soon
>as they got the parts in and that was in october...

Alltech forgot to email you.  They've got the parts.  Not
only that, their prices have gone down dramatically.
The 500MB and 700MB range models are each less
expensive than they were before.  Contact them again.
Several csa2 readers have reported getting their back
ordered Focus drives and new orders seem to be
processed promptly.

Alltech SHOULD ship to the UK.  I know they ship to
Canada.

>Please will someone either sell me a HD or tell me of a supplier
>who will send to me here in the UK. Even if you only have a hard
>drive controler card meant for a laptop HD without the disk 
>please let me know because laptop disks are easy to get. 
>I just need a way of connecting them to my 2GS. Also, if
>anyone knows of any memmory cards going cheap, please let me
>know, as my machine only has just over 2 meg at the moment
>(rom3 with 1meg card)
>
>Thanks in advance for any help rendered,
>
>Yours
>Richard Banks
>Software Engineering Student (no, don't laugh at me :-)
>University of Wales, Aberystwyth

http://www.allelec.com/ Alltech's Focus drive is the way to
go.  You could even order the card without disk and get
a laptop hard disk for it locally, but the models with drives
are more attractive because they include the operating
system and a library of freeware and shareware.

Alternatively, you can get a similar controller card from
a company in Germany called ///SHH Systeme.  I do
not have their address, but run the name through the
search engines to find their web site.  The newer
version of their MicroDrive controller is just like Alltech's
Focus card.  For the MicroDrive, get it without the
hard disk and add your own laptop drive.  It is an
internal IDE hardcard like the Focus, but it comes
from Europe.  This might facilitate shipping.