Re: Super GS Project (Update for Accelerator)--a summary of the best ideas

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <ftGz4.3708$QY4.192546@news0.telusplanet.net>, "Sheane and Bonnie Meikle" <action1@telusplanet.net> writes:
>> SuperDrive as many people can use ZIP drives as an alternative.
>Why not put a 1.44 dos style drive in it? you could make the I/O port
>programable so that people could write software to run whatever they want on
>it.

Well there are also those 120MB capacity floppy drives that are backward
compatible with 1.44MB disks, but I don't know if they are capable of GRC
encoding though.

>> Capable of natively running GS/OS software or seamless emulation.
>> SuperSerial port or GS-serial port (Appletalk)
>> ADB & USB
>
>USB yes, but Apple holds the patent on the ADB port.

Well how about some kind of conversion box. Apple doesn't hold the patent on
the connectors themselves as they are the same type as S-Video. If someone
could build a little box that converts ADB based signals to USB, I'd imagine it
could work. Though I can't imagine the cost of such an item would be.