Re: A wishful thought?

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <384B5E10.D36E478C@cyberhighway.net>, Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net> writes:

>This is right on target, I am still (although slowly) learning how to
>build  a card to support bootable devices on the Apple II.  However, I
>am also interested in interfacing Apple II drives to the PC.  I do like
>some work I have seen with the Commodore 1541, but I would like to work
>on a 3.5 inch drive interface.  It can't be that hard to build a smart
>controller that interfaces through the parallel port to talk the drives.

This would be an ideal product in my opinion of convienence. However you'll
probably need the IMM chip, of which I have no idea what they would cost. Of
course the SWIM chip would be ideal as it supports 1.44MB drives therefore
making it useful for Mac disks as well.