Re: Homemade Superdrive?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

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> >In case you had not noticed I'll fill you in. The man who possesses
> >most of the quantity of SuperDrive controllers is now selling the drives
> >along with them at considerably more.
>
> For a few months he was selling the boxed cards alone for $29.95,
> which was a great price.  When the buyers tapered off, he apparently
> figured he should try bundling them with Superdrives for about $100
> or so.  I would be surprised if he wouldn't sell you a controller for
> $30.

I grabbed 3 of the cards and 2 barebones mechs then. I made drives
to go with them, sold one set and am keeping 2.

> BTW, these things often went for $50-$80 before he started selling
> them.  I was delighted last summer when Sun Remarketing sold
> some for $59.  ;-)

Must have been a month or so before I dragged my IIgs and LC out of
the trash bin at my doctor's office. ;-)

> > Unless someone wants to part with
> >one which I know I don't, there will be none to be had. I have 2, was
going
> >to sell one more, but decided that I might not be able to replace it, so
I'm
> >keeping them both. Now to duplicate the Liron or any other 3.5" disk
> >controller might be feasible, but to dup the SDC would require using a
> >newer more powerful controller IC that does more and costs less. I am
> >looking into this, and possibly will need to modify other components such
> >as connection method and the drive itself. No idea as yet which direction
> >I am going, but please any negative responses will be ignored. Thanks
> >Dan, I'll work with you on this.
>
> Best of luck.
>
> -michael

Thank you Michael.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com



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