Tony Diaz’s new site, 16 Sector has been updated; it contains new product silhouettes, hints and insider humor. The page title now reads “SCSI? Where we’re going, we don’t need SCSI.” and “The Vespa Lives! – But the Vespa is cold…” which for KansasFest attendees is an obvious reference to Carrington Vanston, of 1MHz! — Carrington rode his Vespa all they way to Missouri from Canada last year. Looks like some of the recent speculations he made about 16 Sector in his February podcast may have been as cold as the Canadian winter. We’ll see! By the way, it’s great to have Carrington’s podcast back “on the air”.
The 16 Sector logo is based on a sticker Apple provided back in the day, to help users to distinguish between 13 and 16 sector disks. They were sometimes even placed on the Disk II controller to indicate it had been upgraded.
The first product silhouette has been captioned “Hocus”, the next says “There’s always ][ of me just hangin’ around – Maybe ///” and the last one is “Hot August Nights .. Little Red” which can’t be mistaken for anything other than the Sirius 8MB RAM card for the Apple IIGS.
Well, there you have it. Tony is obviously having a little fun while teasing us before rolling out his new Apple II gear. Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing what else happens.