Re: Commodore drives can be controlled on Apple II serial!

[Mike Morton <mdragon@eagle.ptialaska.net>]

Isn't this like putting 100mb of ram and a 18 gig hard drive in an 8088??  What
would be the use?  Put the hard drive and memory in a machine that can do 15
million times as much!!

Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> On 22 Mar 98 22:39:14 GMT, david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson) wrote:
>
> >Before I purchased a Floptical drive (SCSI 720/1440/20000KB floppy drive), I
> >was going to make a small card with a SCSI controller chip, 65c02, RAM and
> >an ISA slot into which I would plug a multi-I/O card with 2x serial,
> >1x parallel, 2x floppy disk, 2x IDE. This would then give any Apple // with
> >a SCSI card access to 360/720/1200/1440 floppy disks (and possibly IDE disk
> >or CD-ROM). The only problem would be a box and power supply for it.
> >
> >If such a card became popular, it could be made with the super-I/O chip
> >on the same PCB and cut out the ISA bus. Alternatively, a 2nd ISA slot would
> >make room for an ethernet card.
>