Re: Will the ReactiveMicro IIe CF card completely replace floppies?

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@escape.ca> wrote:

>I bought my Microdrive a couple of years back from Hentry at Reactive 
>Micro... great product... it works the same as a hard drive. It is not a 
>replacement for a floppy drive.

I repeat... It is NOT a replacement for a floppy drive. I hope we are clear 
on this now!

>Your question surprises me somewhat... e.g. - the notion of removing a 
>working floppy drive. If you want to eliminate the computer altogether you 
>can always use an emulator... Applewin is excellent. But I would just get 
>things fixed if I was you and also buy a Microdrive...

I would actually recommend all 3 things... use an emulator or several as 
well as using the Microdrive and floppies! Another thing I would recommend 
is getting a GS as well as an Apple //e... and there are other folks who 
wouldn't stop there:)

>I assume you use Ciderpress already and you'll need Ciderpress to access 
>your CF card on the PC if you get a Microdrive. Familiarize yourself with 
>Ciderpress and all its features.

Ciderpress is the best thing of its kind I could ever imagine... as a matter 
of fact it is so brilliantly done that it goes beyond my imagination! But 
like any program worth using it needs a vested learning curve and not some 
lazy overview as I myself have learned.

> Now one real neat thing about the CF card is that you can easily make disk 
> images from real floppies and make floppies from disk images as well as 
> running programs directly on the CF card... and it is real easy to 
> transfer files between the PC and the Apple II without mucking with cables 
> and crapola...

The Microdrive is very neat and the best single purchase that I have ever 
made in all my retrocomputing shenanighans!

As far as those shenanighans go... some of my websites do contain some of 
them in various states of disarray...

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/

http://www.appleoldies.ca/
http://www.cpm8680.com/
http://www.c64classics.ca/

http://www.clipshop.ca/
http://www.teacherschoice.ca/

So it should come as no surprise that I feel weary when I get noodle 
flogged... that flamethrower of mine is just too heavy to lift to fry 
someone with a hearing problem. One fireball would sear the balls off most 
of the programmers that graduated since the 60's and then where would we be, 
right?

Over and Under,

Bill

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