Re: Commodore drives can be controlled on Apple II serial!

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On 25 Mar 98 00:31:31 GMT, david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson) wrote:

|>This card is not a SCSI card for the Apple but a SCSI target to connect to
|>your existing SCSI bus (and existing controller card). The disks attached to
|>the card would appear to be SCSI disks as far as the Apple was concerned
|>(although with more than one disk it would probably need to use SCSI LUNs
|>which may or may not work with existing SCSI cards on the Apple //).

but, as Nathan has already pointed out, cards like RamFAST aren't too
friendly to information popping in without being requested...  having
a serial card or NIC there would be begging for trouble; a video card,
being an output device, actually stands a chance at working,
though....

|>>As to putting an ISA slot interface on it to plug a multi-IO card
|>>into, why not just get a multi-IO card chipset and put it on an Apple
|>>II interface card with appropriate support circuitry?  It would save
|>>you the hassle of doing a ISA slot interface and would probably work
|>>much better.  You could even add disk caching to the card and we would
|>>finally have another bi-directional parallel port for the Apple IIs.
|>
|>That was what I mentioned in the 2nd paragraph of my posting.

treated as a seperate project, i like this one better....  :)

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William Smith
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