Re: USB on the Apple II? Why not?

["Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> Every once in a while (and not too long ago, most recently), someone
floats
> the idea of adding USB to the Apple II.  Most of the time, it quickly gets
> shot down as impractical or of limited use/no use.  Have a look at this
> project, though, which aims to add USB to the TI-99/4A:
>
> http://www.nouspikel.com/ti99/usb.htm
>
> While the 99/4A is a 16-bit computer, the expansion connector on the side
> that leads to the peripheral expansion box (where the TI's expansion slots
> live) is only 8 bits wide, so the same bus-multiplexing that you'd do with
> an Apple II IDE controller would work here.  The USB controller chip
> described on this webpage ought to be adaptable to 8-bit systems.
>
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Scott, thanks for the Link...some interesteing reading....

Glenn