Re: A new project finished -- iDisk for Apple ][ is ready

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Oct 12, 8:19 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> D Finnigan wrote:
> > Greg Buchner wrote:
>
> >>>In article
>
> >><994318da-88c5-4932-9ff4-9cdccd9c2...@x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> >> idisk apple2 <idiskapp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>>iDisk is a dual USB Bluetooth/Disk Controller/Disk Image Archive Card
> >>>for Apple II
>
> >>>Please go to the website to see
>
> >>>http://sites.google.com/site/idiskapple2/
>
> >>Looks great, but I wonder what Apple's Legal Department would think of
> >>you using the iDisk name...
>
> >>http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/idisk.html
>
> >>Greg B.
>
> > I don't know about Apple legal, but IMO, naming it iDisk was a dumb idea.
> > There are so many other better names. And plus, who associates "i-Thing"
> > with an Apple? That's for the Macs!
>
> > Naming aside, (a rose) if this thing can deliver, then this is it: we've
> > reached nirvana.
>
>  From a brief perusal of the web site, I think it's a pretty far
> cry from nirvana.  It seems very restricted in its connectivity
> and operations.
>
> I think in the absence of experience, a lot of projection is
> going on.  Put another way, the grass a mile away is _really_
> green.  ;-)

I feel the same way, particularly when I note the location of the two
USB ports and the gigantic chassis bashing effort involved especially
on a IIgs that has plastic rear casing.

And then I see it has a satellite board intended for mounting outside
the Apple II and wonder why the designer did not place the USB ports
on that instead?

An impressive achievement if it does all the things it claims to, but
I think it's going to be a hard sell with the CB doing pretty much all
of this as is, and easily extended to do the others.

Mechanical interfacing is a pretty important component of design. I
applaud the effort the CB designers went to to make VGA port mounting
easy, and recommend others follow that example.

Matt