Re: Hardware projects - which would be most popular?

["Thomas Kelly" <tjkelly@sbcglobal.net>]

I'd vote for # 6 &  #7
It seems that they would work on IIc/ IIc+, IIgs since they all have a
smartport.
SCSI and IDE cards seem too expensive.
Would there be a problem getting/writing drivers?
The adapters would have a broader target customer base so you could sell
more and recover investment quicker.

"David Wilson" <david@uow.edu.au> wrote in message
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> I am thinking of designing and building a few hardware projects for
> my Apple // systems. I am considering going to Kfest 2002 and were I
> to get working prototypes by then I would bring them with me to show off.
> Are any of the following of interest to anyone else but me?
>
> 1) PS/2 keyboard and mouse to ADB adapter (for //gs)
> 2) PS/2 keyboard to Apple //e adapter
> 3) PS/2 keyboard to Apple ][+ adapter
> 4) 5.25/3.5 FDD controller to Apple 50 pin bus
> 5) 5.25/3.5 FDD controller to Smartport bus (for //c and //gs)
> 6) Smartport to SCSI bus adapter
> 7) Smartport to IDE/ATAPI bus adapter
> 8) High speed serial card with onboard PPP processing
>
> Numbers 4 & 5 would use standard PC disk drives but use GCR formats
> giving the following data capacities:
>
> DS/DD 40 track 5.25" 320KB + read/write Apple 5.25" disks
> DS/DD 80 track 5.25" 640KB or 800KB + read only Apple 5.25" disks
> DS/HD 80 track 5.25" 1200KB
> DS/DD 80 track 3.5" 800KB (Apple 3.5 compatible)
> DS/HD 80 track 3.5" 1600KB
> --
> David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia
>