idisk apple2 wrote:
Forgot to mention, the two USB port was palced quite far away from each other, reason is there are many different type of form factor for the USB stick, and the original idea was we want to place as less restrictions on the form factor of the USB stick as possible. We were using the widest USB stick we have and make it 20% more to place the USB ports, so people can use almost any type of USB stick they can find. That makes the chassis cutting necessary! It seems we have incorrect thinking.
USB "thumb drives" of Apple II-appropriate capacities (like 2GB) are only a couple of dollars and are all of approximately the same narrow form factor, so I wouldn't make any decision based on a desire to "salvage" some random USB drive. -michael NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."