Re: Hardware musings

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com> wrote in message
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: Linards Ticmanis wrote:
: > Can't one at least assume a working ADT setup, i.e. a
: > serial connection between the Apple and another machine?
: > Or is this going to exclude too many potential users?
:
: That seems a safe assumption for a disk image grabber.
:
: But is there enough memory in the Apple II to contain all
: of the multiple track reads before sending all the date to
: the (PC/Java/etc) "server" side for processing? I'm guessing
: possibly not, and that with no disk swapping involved (a la SST)
: it wouldn't matter how long the 6502 chugged away constructing
: each master track from the multiple reads and analysis.
:
: Cheers,
: Nick.

Sounds like a job for IIgs with at least a 1 MB ram card installed.
Could we get Eric Shepherd involved in this maybe? Once the complete
bit-stream can be read on a IIgs, then that code can be modified to
work with the USB to Apple Disk II device, and following that,
Ciderpress, and emulation.

William Garber
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