anyone heard of "lobo drives"?

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sun Aug 24 14:21:51 1997

SUPRDAVE_at_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.
Received on Sun Aug 24 1997 - 14:21:51 BST