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Re: Apple 3.5 Superdrive Disk Controller
Drew wrote:
On Aug 26, 7:21 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
a2...@hotmail.com wrote:
Just seen this on ebay and its like nearly $400 dollars....Is this
normal for Superdrive controllers? I am sure I bought one about 5
years ago for like �50 and that was NIB. Amazed..
Yes, these controllers have gone up. They are not rare, just uncommon.
I don't get why people want them so badly now, since CF options are so
plentiful. If someone wants one that bad, I've got NIB cards I'd
consider selling for $400.
I remember when Shreve Systems was selling them off NIB for about $20.
Then a year or so later, they were being re-sold for about $30, and
now, a few years later, they've become "gold".
They still are quite useful, but you are correct that the combination
of CFFA and CiderPress has certainly made them unnecessary.
-michael
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I have most things for my IIGS, superdrives, CFFA , Uthernet (for
transferring stuff this has to be pretty much the best item i have)
What kind of bandwidth do you get when transferring a large file
or a bunch of smaller files?
and sometimes it is handy to get my powerbook G3 out and just use
floppies between Bernie, the mac and a real GS. The floppy is also hot
swappable :-) unlike the CFFA.
That's true--in fact, that is one of the reasons I still use
a 1.44MB floppy to move a few files...
I just wasn't expecting that much money
for something which isn't necessarily a necessity for a GS to run,
unlike memory cards and accelerator cards. I was lucky enough to pick
up a couple of superdrive cards over the years for a fraction of that
cost so feel like i did well. If i remember at the time the difficulty
i had was getting the drive mechanisms to upgrade my 800K drives. I am
sure they will be one thing that will next go up in price. There is
someone on ebay selling his last stock of New Superdrive mechanisms
for the GS
Those "2MB" drives are almost literally a dime a dozen, or used to
be with all the scrapped Macs. Given the size of the old Mac
reservoir compared to the Apple II community, it will take a while
for them to get scarce--unless millions of them went in the dumpster.
-michael
AppleCrate II: An Apple II "blade server"!
Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
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