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Re: Apple IIe Card for Mac LC II

Scott Alfter wrote:

In article <1178263236.061471.217490@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Oracle  <oraclemaster@inwind.it> wrote:


Look at this post that's not too old.

Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2.marketplace
Da: "pitz" <wongp...@msu.edu>
Data: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 06:13:16 -0700
Locale: Lun 2 Apr 2007 15:13
Oggetto: FS: Apple IIe Card Y-cables
I recently found a bunch of these original Y-cables for the Apple IIe card
(an emulator for use with the LC family of Macintosh computers).  The cables
allow you to attach your old Apple 5.25" drives, 3.5" Unidisk drives, and a
joystick or paddle controller.



I grabbed one of those a short time ago...had it pretty quickly, but when I
got around to testing it, the hard drive in my Color Classic had croaked. :-(

I'm considering replacing it with solid-state storage of some sort; there
are SCSI-to-IDE and SCSI-to-PC Card adapters available that can in turn take
an adapter to accept CompactFlash.  With virtual memory turned off, there
will be no swapping that'd thrash the card, and a smallish card should hold
System 7.5.x, the IIe card software, and the GatorBox maintenance software
(currently on my Quadra) with room to spare.

This one's kinda spendy, given the small amount of money I have in my Color
Classic so far (cost of shipping, plus maybe another $30 for the IIe card
and Y-cable):

http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=23&prod_no=AEC-7720U%20(Support%20ATAPI%20Device)&type1_title=SCSIDE%20Bridge&type1_idno=2

This one's cheaper, but I don't know if the guts could be pulled out and
repackaged for internal mounting:

http://secure.oswaltsystems.net/gosurplus/10Expand.asp?ProductCode=PCMCIA.MCDISK

ObOnTopic: if you already have a SCSI card for your Apple II, these options
ought to work for it as well.


Scott, given that the price for small, used SCSI drives (Apple firmware)
is about $10 a dozen, why not just replace it?

I realize that there's no way to know how much life is left in a used
drive, but if you have a few of them, odds are good that you'll be set
for years--particularly if you regularly copy the in-use one to a backup
drive.

-michael

NadaNet file server for Apple II computers!
Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

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