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Re: Apple //c smartport compact flash adapter



mdj wrote:
On Feb 3, 10:12 pm, Delfs <eeast...@gmail.com> wrote:


Well I'm still not sure how you would hook one up on the inside, but I
think a standard 'dongle' package could hold the necessary circuit and
card, regardless fo type used.  Personally I think that if the IDE
implementaiton is already covered then the rest are as well...


There's a lot of ways to do it, but I don't personally see the
benefit. Speed is the obvious one, but anyone concerned about speed
can use Glen Bredon's ProCache to cancel out most of the performance
problems.

20kb/s is actually not too bad on an Apple II, and without the 'seek'
delays that go with rotational media a good solid 20kb/s ought to be
achievable.

FWIW, the CFFA, running on my 8MHz Zipped //e, delivers 44.4KB/sec
data bandwidth for BLOADs through BASIC.SYSTEM, so there's something
to be said for a bus connection.  (BTW, transfer rate did not seem
to be strongly affected by acceleration, even with slot speed set to
"fast".)

-michael

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