Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Dave Althoff Jr" <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote in message
news:bs9rf6$rh1$1@acme.gcfn.org...

: A thought...
:
: It is getting darned near impossible to buy hard drives of any
physical
: size that are reasonable for use on n 8-bit Apple ][.  I mean,
from a
: practical point of view, with a 32Mb volume limit plus the
ProDOS limits
: on the number of volumes available, it's really not practical
to go past
: about 160Mb...

I have a box full of smaller hard drives, might as well
put them to good use. Also, from info given to me by a
very respected source, the Apple IIc can handle up to
much larger drives on SmartPort. Unless I misunderstood
what he was telling me.

: For that reason, for internal storage, wouldn't there be
distinct
: advantages to using flash memory instead?  Access would be as
fast or
: faster, but it would be non-volatile, non-mechanical,
crash-resistant
: storage, which takes up less space than even the smallest hard
drives.

I am considering alternatives to the hard drive.
CF cards on adapters to the IDE port on the controller
will work. I am also looking into the Flash Ram approach.
How about a card edge Flash drive that you can replace
easily and use in a similar fashion as you would a disk.
I kind of like that idea.

: Just a thought...

Your thoughts are very welcome. Thanks.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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