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Re: USB adapter

 > GUEST wrote:
 > Adapters to connect a USB host (PC or other) to an IDE/ATA drive
are
 > very common. Does anyone know of an adapter to connect to an IDE
 > controller (like a CFFA) and provide a USB host? What I'd like to
do
 > with such an adapter is to plug in a standard USB-CF card reader
 > external to the Apple II.
 > 
 > The obvious solution would be to run the 40-pin ribbon cable from
the
 > CFFA out to an IDE/CF adapter, as others have done. I don't want to
 > have a semi-permanent "thing" hanging off of the
computer. Also,
 > making a removable connector (like a DB-25) for such a cable would
 > mean dropping most of the grounds from the 40-pin cable, which I
don't
 > want to do.

or buy something like this 

http://sites.google.com/site/idiskapple2/

or this

http://vinchysky.angelfire.com/

These would provide you with what you want to do (and a bit more). a
little bit of money but well worth it.