Re: Looking for a BlueDisk card

[John E Townsend <utownje@lexis-nexis.com>]

Hey Bob (and anyone else who may be interested), I thought you'd like to know that
I'm basically following this suggestion, and have so far found 10 people in the
U.S. who are interested in participating in a group purchase of 15 or so BlueDisk
and MicroDrive cards from ///SHH Systeme.  We expect to get a substantial savings
by dividing the shipping and fees evenly among us.  If you're interested in
getting involved too, just let me know what you want.  For information about these
cards, see ///SHH Systeme's web page at http://www.wbwip.com/shh/.  Thanks!

bobhays@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> In article <19990424233300.01575.00003039@ng-ck1.aol.com>,
>   supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> > ///SHH Systeme does make a card along the same lines as the Focus, called
> > Microdrive (two different versions too), but the BlueDisk is not this card.
> >
> > The BlueDisk is a PC *FLOPPY* disk controller.  With a BlueDisk, you
> > can use your 320k and 1.2MB 5.25" floppy and 760k, 1.44MB, and 2.88MB
> > PC compatible disk drives on your Apple II.
> >
> > Naturally, with the card and a PC drive, the Apple can read MS-DOS FAT
> > disks too, but you can also format ProDOS and HFS disks on the drives
> > connected to the card.
>
> Buy several of them, keep what you want and sell the remainder on eBay. I
> know I probably would buy one, probably so would a lot of others who live in
> the US. Just a thought.

--
John E. Townsend
Sr. Software Engineer          "Machines should work;
LEXIS-NEXIS                     people should think."
Dayton, OH, USA                        -- IBM Polyanna Principle
utownje@lexis-nexis.com