Re: Virtual serial drive

[bpiltz@gmail.com]

Wow, this hack is simply too awesome to ignore, but I need some sort of serial (generic or SSC) card to serve this Virtual Drive? It cannot be done over the Cassette interface for obvious reasons.

So, now I can have a 32 MB "hard" drive on my old IIe? With all those great exomized games and single-load programs? All my old Appleworks files in one place, also on that same HD image? And, all my other disks imaged to ProDOS served through Dos 3.3 Launcher? Now, that is simply too great for words, AND it will save the wear on my old 30-year old Duodisks drive!

But, I ask for some sage advice. Will I still need to spend *hundreds* of dollards to acquire a super serial card? At today's inflated Ebay prices, what is my cheapest option to get the Virtual serial drive working at 115k baud on my IIe? Is there a cheap generic serial card which will work? What will I have to pay for it, in the ball park?