Re: hardware, still being made or just still being sold???

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

"Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com> wrote:

>Hello.  A post from Supertimer in a previous post mentioned the sales of the
>Focus drives and Sirius RAM cards that AllTech sells.  Are the Focus hard
>drives and Sirius RAM cards still being produced or are they just still
>being sold?  If they are JUST still being sold, then it is JUST a matter of
>time before they JUST aren't available anymore, like new accelerators.  If
>they are just still being sold, then who needs their lawn mowed?  I need to
>come up with some Sirius cash, fast.  :-)  It's the only missing piece of
>the IIgs upgrade Trifecta (HD, RAM, Accelerator) that I am missing (well,
>will be once they get here in the mail).

Good question.  I suspect they are still being made for the simple
reason that unlike Zip GS and TransWarp GS cards, both Focus
and Sirius are Alltech owned, Alltech manufactured products.

Alltech paid Parson's Technology, the previous owner of the Focus
drive, for the rights to the Focus in 1995.  The Sirius was designed
by Tony Diaz, the Apple II guy at Alltech.

A little story about the Focus, by the way, in case you are interested:

Focus started out as the "Zip Drive" (I know, I know, but this was
before Iomega's superfloppy) sold by Zip Technologies, the same
folks who made the Zip GS.  Some kind of falling out happened
between Zip Tech and the inventor of the card and off he went to
Parson's Technology.  In 1995, Focus drive was sold to Alltech, where
it currently resides.