Re: More Information for MFM Drives

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> writes:
>There are, at present, no 
>USB adapters for any model of the II, and I've heard of none under 
>development (I wonder if any II could even handle the high rate of data 
>that USB can kick around). So your "goal" has, at present no Apple II 
>application, does it?

Just because USB can run at 12Mb/s does not mean that the Apple // would have
to pump data at that rate (which is only 1.5MB/s). USB also has a 1.5Mb/s
rate used by keyboards and mice (187.5kB/s) that an Apple // would have
no trouble keeping up with. Besides, any sensible design would use an on board
uP to handle the USB protocol rather than trying to get the 65x02 to handle it.

Making an Apple // into a USB target would probably be easier than making
it into a host.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia