Re: Hardware projects - which would be most popular?

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>]

I'd vote for #6 or #7 myself (#7 if I had to choose)...

Cheers!
Tim

"Thomas Kelly" <tjkelly@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:3cd37430$1@news.uow.edu.au...
> > 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
> >
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