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

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
>It looks like if serial is not sufficient, the options are:

>1) The SCSI port
>2) The Smartport
>3) The Game port
>4) A whole new slot card

Before I purchased a Floptical drive (SCSI 720/1440/20000KB floppy drive), I
was going to make a small card with a SCSI controller chip, 65c02, RAM and
an ISA slot into which I would plug a multi-I/O card with 2x serial,
1x parallel, 2x floppy disk, 2x IDE. This would then give any Apple // with
a SCSI card access to 360/720/1200/1440 floppy disks (and possibly IDE disk
or CD-ROM). The only problem would be a box and power supply for it.

If such a card became popular, it could be made with the super-I/O chip
on the same PCB and cut out the ISA bus. Alternatively, a 2nd ISA slot would
make room for an ethernet card.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia  david@uow.edu.au