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Re: CFFA for IIc and IIc+?



On Apr 8, 3:05 pm, gids...@sasktel.net wrote:
> On Apr 8, 12:26 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Apr 8, 1:50 pm, Mike Spurgeon <m...@spurgeon.net> wrote:
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> > > Sheppy wrote:
> > > > I personally expect to probably use this in a IIc+, although now that
> > > > I think about it, since I really want to be using it with 5.25" disks
> > > > as a disk writing machine, it would be more space efficient to use a
> > > > IIc with a built-in 5.25" drive instead,
>
> > > If an external IIc 5.25 drive also works with a IIc+, you could have the
> > > best of both.
>
> > Well, what I'm looking for is the smallest possible footprint in terms
> > of desk space for writing 5.25" disks to fill orders.  Right now, I'm
> > using a IIgs with a stack of drives next to it, which takes up a lot
> > of desk space.  If I could switch to a IIc with internal flash storage
> > and built-in 5.25" drive, I wouldn't need any external devices, which
> > would vastly reduce my footprint, and would save room on my already
> > cluttered desk.
>
> > Right now, the IIgs is across the room on a separate table, which
> > hurts my productivity when writing disks to fill orders.
>
> > Sheppy
>
> Or you can get rid of all those drives and just use a CFFA card.  I
> wrote a driver for Rich Drehers CFFA card to access up to 8 GB from
> Prodos 8.

Kind of hard to write floppy disks out without floppy drives. :)

Sheppy