24 Aug
1997
24 Aug
'97
10:21 a.m.
SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
I decided to catalog all my apple ][ stuff this
weekend and rediscovered
some
controller cards and some drive analog cards by a company called lobo
drives.
they are in good shape, but definately appear to be their age. the circuit
boards for the controller cards is almost translucent and they don't seem
to
have the component or soldering/design quality that later model cards
have.
several the the analog cards are missing the 74ls125? chip, probably
because
of incorrect cabling. anyone heard of this company? are the parts worth
keeping?
Lobo Drives was a company that started here in Santa Barbara sometime in the
early '80s putting together and selling 5 1/4" and 8" disk systems. I
don't
know all the computers their stuff would work with, but I know they would
work with the TRS computers. A bit later, they started making their own TRS
clone called the MAX80 that got good reviews (as I recall) in the
magazines. I wasn't aware they made controller cards for the Apple IIs but
I don't have a lot of info on their product line. The company was started
by Roger Billings and was sold a number of years later, but I don't know who
bought it. Trivia, a friend of mine did much of the early drafting and
layout of the circuit boards, and I made some of the engineering prototype
boards.