Re: Vintage Computing Advice

[PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

On Apr 28, 2:34 pm, Alex Freed <alex_n...@mirrow.com> wrote:
> On Apr 28, 11:15 am, Jason <jasonb1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> Folks around here seem to be FPGA-happy.  Might it not be faster (from
> >> a development standpoint) to use an inexpensive PIC or AVR
> >> microcontroller to interface an SD card to the //c or is the added
> >> flexibility of an FPGA really necessary?
>
> This is exactly what my Pseudo Disk did. With an AVR. But to interface
> directly to the Apple bus rather than to a disk controller which is
> very much faster in ProDOS mode a few more chips were needed.
> However the upcoming CB will take care of multiple thing with a single
> board and will be extremely flexible.
>
> -Alex.

Alex, whats the status of the Pseudo Disk? I was holding out for write
capability, multiple partitions, and was hoping for the ability to
switch disks.  This would essentially end up being a SVD on a card
which would be pretty holy grailish.

- Paul