Re: CFFA no more ?

[Eric <englere_geo@yahoo.com>]

The Microdrive devices are similar to CFFA and they are still being
made.

http://www.reactivemicro.com/

I really love mine for the Apple 2e. I bought it a couple years ago
and it's still my favorite plugin board. You can boot from any of the
4, 32Meg partitions using OpenApple and the partition number.

I can't imagine why anyone would not want to use a Compact Flash card
as a hard disk for the Apple II. Sure they cost a little bit more than
some people are willing to spend, but it's been a "no brainer" for me.
I have to consider the value of my time, and it saves me a lot of time
over working with floppy disks, or the old tempramental hard drives
such as the Sider.

By using Ciderpress and a cheap CF card reader on the PC, it also
becomes super easy to transfer disk images to and from the Apple. I
can't imaging using the Super Serial Card for that purpose any more.

By the way, the Little Proto Board that Henry will begin selling soon
looks pretty sweet for hardware hackers.

Eric