Re: Hardware projects - which would be most popular?

["Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com>]

    Apple II can read and format MFM floppy drive like 360KB, 1.2MB, 760KB,
1.44MB, and 2.88MB.  It is already manufactured by ///SHH Systems from
Germany.  The product is called BlueDisk controller card.  PS--It can format
800KB and 1600KB like this!

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Yours Truly,

Bryan Parkoff
BParkoff@satx.rr.com
"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> my preference David...
>
> forget 1,2 & 3 - who really needs PS2 support, not I. keyboard, joystick
and
> mouse are already supported. what else could there be ?
>
> 4 & 5 - I'd only be interested in 3.5 support for the A2, but there is
> already cards for this like - the superdisk disk controller. the IIc can
use
> a 3.5 Unidisk, which are still available 2nd hand for a reasonable price.
>
> 6 sounds really good, especially for the IIc which has virtually no HDD
> support available. This is my favorite of all your ideas.
>
> 7 would be OK if 6 is too hard. for the IIe though it would be less
popular
> because there are already other HDD options available.
>
> 8 maybe interesting.
>
> Mark
> Townsville, Oz
>
>
> "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
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