Re: What if we built an 8-bit Apple II...

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

brad wrote:

>what i'd like to see is a bare bones empty card with a usb slot that i could
>just plug my usb scandisk pen into...viola instant 128mb hd found..or
>above....pop it into usb type port in back of apple // ..remove ..walk it
>over to //gs usb card port...
>
>would not have to be 'true' usb i'd settle for just guick and easy way to
>swap these for use as neato hds....
>
>but tech prob would not be feasable...but cool

Although the form factor may not be as cool, and you can't hot swap
them, the CFFA card provides otherwise the same flexibility and more
capacity with CompactFlash cards.

-michael

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