Re: USB Stick support of IIgs?

["Warren 'Llama' Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Sep 24, 11:01 am, "Jeff Blakeney"
<jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-bm0-this> wrote:
> Bill Buckels wrote:
> > I can't imagine how a USB stick would improve on any of this except to be
> > doing what I am currently doing in a different way.
>
> Well, maybe you have CF readers in your computers but there are a lot of
> people who don't.  I don't own a single CF card as I don't have a reader
> for one.  I do have six USB ports on my computer and pretty much
> everyone I know also has USB ports so I have several USB sticks that I
> can use to share data with them.  

You can get a USB to CF Card Reader for as little as $5 on Amazon. You
can get a cardreader that reads 35 different formats for $25 or so,
and some of them fit into a front-panel drive bracket. There's no way
a USB-enabled device for your Apple II will ever be as cheap or easy
to implement as a CF Reader for your PC or Mac, so there's no point
arguing against it.

>
> Having the ability to read and write USB sticks or other storage on my
> IIgs would be fantastic as I wouldn't need to do null modem transfers or
> use a SCSI card in my PC and have my magneto-optical drives hooked up to
>   my IIgs and PC and swap cartridges (which are fairly large, noisy and
> power hungry and limited to 300 MB at a time).

Agreed; CF cards and a Microdrive or CFFA card meet this solution.
Given how rare floppy drives are for PCs these days, the CF solution
is even more likely to work on a wider range of computers than getting
your Apple II a rare 1.44MB SuperDrive floppy drive and controller and
shuffling floppy disks around...

-Warr