Re: Upcoming project: virtual hard drive for //c and IIgs

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Peltier Cedric wrote:
> As planned, I'm going to release the project open source, with a 
> reference document dedicated to the smartbus. You will get all the ins 
> and outs of the smartbus and we should be able to go further ahead in 
> the discussion.
>
> My following step will still be to work on a pentium and upwards 
> revision wich will be a step closer to a usefull version.
>
> Nevertheless, I found there is some relatively cheap electronic projects 
> we could play with to do a smartport to usb bridge and a standalone 
> smartport mass storage. These projects are, but not limited to, Arduino, 
> UBW32, and CUI32. I feel them better than going from scratch, but I 
> wonder if a skilled guy could achieve the same goal (considering this 
> project) with cheaper hardware.

I'm sure that a lot of folks would love to have a convenient way to
connect mass storage to a IIc or IIc+ using the Smartport interface.

-michael

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