Hardware production

[Mike Kent <Mkent01@viking.cris.com>]

The USB input thread got me to thinking.  What's been happening to the
rights to the design of the expansion cards going out of production?  The
Second Sight and the RAMfast still belong to Sequential (they're still in
production, at least for the time being).  And I'm sure Apple still owns
the Hi-speed SCSI card.  But what about the others?  The Zip GS, the
TransWarp?  The SoundMeister?  The SuperSonic card and the HyperStudio
digitizer?  Whatever became of them?  Someone must still own the rights to
their production, but who?

Recently we've been fortunate in the Apple II community that when major
software goes out of production we've been able to get it reclassified as
shareware / freeware or the rights transferred to someone like Joe Kohn
and SSII.  But what about hardware?  Isn't there somebody out there
willing to take on low-rate production of add-on cards so that we don't
have to lose these valuable assets?

I hate to pile more work on Joe, but is there anybody else out there as
dependable as he is?  Seven Hills?  Tony Diaz?  Eric Shepherd?  Somebody?
Anybody?

Mike