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Re: Hardware projects - which would be most popular?
- Subject: Re: Hardware projects - which would be most popular?
- From: ncbill@my-deja.com (Bill in NC)
- Date: 4 May 2002 18:51:22 -0700
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: http://groups.google.com/
- References: <3cd37430$1@news.uow.edu.au>
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7. Smartport to IDE - to Compact Flash.
This would be small and draw little power (ideal for those of us with
//c or //c+ and clones).
Let's face it, it's getting harder to find small hard drives, either
IDE or SCSI.
The 170MB Focus drive I just got has a manufacture date of July
1995 on the hard drive.
(And my 20MB Focus drive on the //e is almost 10 years old)
I have a lot more faith in Compact Flash, which is why I ordered the
IDE card from
http://dreher.net/CFforAppleII/
And with that project complete it appears part of the work is already
done.
Oh yeah, I'd like an inexpensive (under $50) VGA converter as well.
David Wilson 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