Vintage Computing Advice

[Jason <jasonb1963@yahoo.com>]

I've been lurking on this group for a bit thinking about getting into 
"vintage" computing.  Joining the swelling ranks of the nation's 
unemployed, I now find myself with a whole lot of extra time on my 
hands, so it seems like an opportune moment.

I don't have a lot of room in the study I share with my wife, so I was 
thinking of picking up an Apple IIc which seem to go for under $40 on 
eBay in good condition.  My first Apple was a //+, so I'm hoping it 
will be an easy adjustment.

My questions relate to the following:

Video:  I'd like to use an existing LCD panel display I have (with VGA 
input).  I note that several companies manufacture composite video to 
VGA converter boxes for $40-$60.  Can anyone comment whether this 
produces an acceptable display?  I'd prefer to avoid dealing with an 
older CRT if I can avoid it.

Program storage:  I understand some people may enjoy the swishing sound 
the Disk ][ drive makes when loading programs, but I can live just fine 
without managing a large stack of floppies and worrying about keeping 
them away from magnetic fields and wondering when they may go bad on 
me.  I see there is a CFFA adapter for the larger Apple // computers, 
and there has been some talk of creating one for the //c, but it is 
still presumably vaporware and some time off, no?  Are there any 
alternatives?  I see the 8-bit Atari platform has a nice adapter 
(SIO2PC I belive it's called) that allows the Atari to connect to a 
modern PC with the PC emulating many different peripherals 
simultaneously.  Is there anything analagous that will work on a //c?

//c revisions:  There are two revisions of the //c (not including the 
//c+ which doesn't particularly interest me at the moment anyway) -- 
the A2S4000 and the A2S4100.  I presume the newer model is more 
desirable because it has memory expansion capability?  Hopefully this 
does not limit any potential hardware upgrades along the lines of a 
SDFA/CFFA card for it?

TIA for any comments.

--
Jason