USB on the Apple II? Why not?

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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Every once in a while (and not too long ago, most recently), someone floats
the idea of adding USB to the Apple II.  Most of the time, it quickly gets
shot down as impractical or of limited use/no use.  Have a look at this
project, though, which aims to add USB to the TI-99/4A:

http://www.nouspikel.com/ti99/usb.htm

While the 99/4A is a 16-bit computer, the expansion connector on the side
that leads to the peripheral expansion box (where the TI's expansion slots
live) is only 8 bits wide, so the same bus-multiplexing that you'd do with
an Apple II IDE controller would work here.  The USB controller chip
described on this webpage ought to be adaptable to 8-bit systems.

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