Re: USB Stick support of IIgs?

[larwe <zwsdotcom@gmail.com>]

On Sep 26, 11:58 pm, Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:

> Because what's needed to get USB on the Apple II will be expensive.  It
> will require a lot of effort (if it's at all possible, the easiest method

Not really. Freescale has a bunch of parts with on-chip USB-OTG
interface and they supply the reference IP to access storage class
devices. Yes, it's a second processor (a ColdFire) but it's not overly
expensive. It's more or less one chip (about $9), the USB connector,
and a crystal.

It would even be possible to hand-build it. Freescale supplies the
chip on a little demo board that brings all the pins out to .100"
headers. Look at the DEMOJM kit (it comes with one 8-bit xx09 module
and one ColdFire module).