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USB adapter
- Subject: USB adapter
- From: mojoehand <mojoehand@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 21:21:09 -0700 (PDT)
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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.