Re: musing about building a minimalist Apple ][+ clone

[see_sig_for_valid_email@no.spam (Simon Williams)]

Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> Then you'll be happy to know that this is just that.
> It's a CF card controller.

I'm quite happy :)

> We were thinking it should
> also do hard drives, but to fit one inside would be a
> bear.

My (non-technical) instinct would be to yank the internal floppy, stuff
in the HD and then rewire the external floppy port to S6,D1... I'm
betting it's a bit more complicated than that though...

> If we can get LBA incorporated which we will most
> likely need for the CF cards, you could run a long cable
> out the back and connect a hard drive to it.

Probably the biggest benefit to having mass storage on a //c (or //c+
???) would be the additional portability of the unit. Combine that with
an internal power supply and a small LCD monitor and I'll be on the road
with the Merry Pranksters in no time ;-)

...now if I could just get a damned modem to work with one of these
things... 

Anyway, best of luck on this one -- I'll be rootin' for ya! :)

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