Re: Apple II still ahead of the curve!

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

The CF devices on the Apple II are pretty seamless.  The're essentially
IDE hard drive controllers, and GSOS drivers are available for all of
them.  Unfortunately only some, but not all, have partition schemes as
good as the ones older SCSI controllers provided.  The most limited one
maxes out at 8 ProDOS partitions (or 4 ProDOS + 2 HFS), which is still
ok.  Anyhow, its good to have a variety of options available.

- Paul

ben yates wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:51:52 -0700, Simon D. Williams wrote:
>
> > I was just reading about flash memory replacing hard drives in some new
> > laptops, and it occurred to me that in this regard the Apple II is well
> > ahead of current technology. Hats off to Rich Dreher and the CFFA!
>
> It's not just the Apple II...
>
> I have a compact flash for my TI-99 as well.
> Seems we have a lot of "experimenters" bringing new technology to old
> machines.
>
> Besides, a compact flash on a TI is _much_ faster than a floppy, and more
> compatible than a SCSI drive with existing software, albeit not hardware.
> How does that work on the Apple II?