Re: Internal HD for IIGS?

["Chuck Morris" <nospamdotchuckmorris@kc.rr.com>]

Bill Garber <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net> wrote in message
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> Right now the best thing around and the most readily available
> is the CFFA card by Rich Dreher. It is I believe $105 and you can
> get the CF cards from eBay fairly cheap. I just picked up a 256 mb
> CF card for $51.24 shipped from there. I have 2 of his CFFA cards
> and I love them. I use one in the IIgs and one for testing in the work
> room. I'd like 2 more but I have my eye on the Apple I replica by
> Vince Briel and that will take a few bucks. Here is the link to the
> CFFA and if you need a cheap CF card for it, let me know and I'll
> snag you one. It will do up to 1 gb I believe.
>
> http://dreher.net/CFforAppleII/
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> Good luck.
>
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Thanks for the info, Bill!  This looks like a good alternative, and it looks
like it would also support the 2.5" IDE hard drives, if there's enough power
available.  The CF card would probably be the most practical solution
though, and it would probably take me forever to do enough writes to the
card to wear it out.  If I read the specs for the card properly, the 256MB
CF card would be the largest capacity that it would make sense to buy, since
it looks like it will support at most 8 partitions of 32MB each.  Seeing as
how I've never come close to filling up a 10MB Sider hard drive on the IIe,
I'll probably just pick up a 128MB CF and leave it at that.