Re: Looking for a BlueDisk card

[bobhays@my-dejanews.com]

In article <19990424233300.01575.00003039@ng-ck1.aol.com>,
  supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:
>
> >John,
> >	Is this just for the sake of collecting?  I thought that this was
> basically
> >the same as a Focus Hard Drive -- only a whole lot more expensive for those
of
> >us in the States.
>
> ///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.

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