Re: Hardware musings

["Justin England" <justin@rapidcity.net>]

"Tony Cianfaglione" <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message 
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>   What you're suggesting is a setup like I have that gives me access to
> my other systems.  I use a CT100c 100mb hard drive, partitioned 4 ways -
> 25mb each for my IIc.  I have the hard drive hooked to a 2-way 15pin
> switchbox that runs to my IIc and IIGS.  By switching the line one way or
> another, the CT100c has access to either my IIc or my IIGS.  If you had
> something like that, your GS could run AppleTalk and access your hard
> drive and your IIc could benefit as well.  My IIGS boots and runs from a
> Vulcan Gold 100mb and the CT100c connects via the SmartPort as it does
> with the IIc.  That way, you don't have the grief of trying to enable
> AppleTalk on a IIc.  Let your GS do the AppleTalk.

If we were all only so lucky to have our own HD for the //c! :)  That was 
one of the last peripherals that I was saving up for in high school, then I 
went to college and never got around to buying one... How sorry I am now!!

Don't get me wrong, I would love to have an SCSI HD for my //c, then I would 
figure out a way to get a Zip / SyQuest / etc. drive connected and just swap 
media from my GS to my //c.  But my whole goal would be to have a file 
server for all my A2s to share apps, files, etc.  Also, hard drives for the 
//c are extremely rare.  I don't do a lot of eBay'ing, but the large amount 
of time I have spent browsing A2 auctions over the last 6 years, I have 
never seen one.  That doesn't mean that they haven't been sold on eBay as 
there are times I go for months without looking at the A2 auctions, but I 
can say that I have seen just about every other rare A2 piece of hardware 
being sold on eBay.

Thanks,

Justin