Re: Apple //c smartport compact flash adapter

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net>]

On 1/31/11 10:31 AM, in article wholly-1296487871@macgui.com, "Wholly
Mindless" <wholly@whollymindless.com> wrote:

> Payton Byrd wrote:
>> I've thought about this a bit and I think the CF solution is best for
>> the Apple II as it is already widely accepted for CFFA and other IDE-
>> based solutions.  I think keeping the medium consistent will allow
>> users to get more value.  I could take my CF card that I use for my
>> normal A2 activities on my //e and IIgs and use that same card on
>> the //c without a problem that way.
> 
> That holds just fine until you realize that a CF full of GS/OS and //gs
> development tools isn't a whole lot of fun on a //c.
> 
> (I feel sorry for Robert.  Everyone is designing his product and he's
> disappeared thinking that maybe it's time for the TI 99/4a project he was
> thinking about)

What project for the TI-99/4A? We have a CF adapter, and aren't arguing
about the media. Our issues in the past has been whether it should have
memory on-board (then 32k was added), then whether it should come with the
parallel port it had been designed with or a serial port (then a new model
with a serial port replacing the parallel port was released).

We even have some brave souls who've hooked it up using a SCSI to IDE
converter to a SCSI card so it can be used with the old expansion box. And a
couple who have IDE cards who have used it that way.