Re: Hardware projects - which would be most popular?

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

my preference David...

forget 1,2 & 3 - who really needs PS2 support, not I. keyboard, joystick and
mouse are already supported. what else could there be ?

4 & 5 - I'd only be interested in 3.5 support for the A2, but there is
already cards for this like - the superdisk disk controller. the IIc can use
a 3.5 Unidisk, which are still available 2nd hand for a reasonable price.

6 sounds really good, especially for the IIc which has virtually no HDD
support available. This is my favorite of all your ideas.

7 would be OK if 6 is too hard. for the IIe though it would be less popular
because there are already other HDD options available.

8 maybe interesting.

Mark
Townsville, Oz


"David Wilson" <david@uow.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3cd37430$1@news.uow.edu.au...
> I am thinking of designing and building a few hardware projects for
> my Apple // systems. I am considering going to Kfest 2002 and were I
> to get working prototypes by then I would bring them with me to show off.
> Are any of the following of interest to anyone else but me?
>
> 1) PS/2 keyboard and mouse to ADB adapter (for //gs)
> 2) PS/2 keyboard to Apple //e adapter
> 3) PS/2 keyboard to Apple ][+ adapter
> 4) 5.25/3.5 FDD controller to Apple 50 pin bus
> 5) 5.25/3.5 FDD controller to Smartport bus (for //c and //gs)
> 6) Smartport to SCSI bus adapter
> 7) Smartport to IDE/ATAPI bus adapter
> 8) High speed serial card with onboard PPP processing
>
> Numbers 4 & 5 would use standard PC disk drives but use GCR formats
> giving the following data capacities:
>
> DS/DD 40 track 5.25" 320KB + read/write Apple 5.25" disks
> DS/DD 80 track 5.25" 640KB or 800KB + read only Apple 5.25" disks
> DS/HD 80 track 5.25" 1200KB
> DS/DD 80 track 3.5" 800KB (Apple 3.5 compatible)
> DS/HD 80 track 3.5" 1600KB
> --
> David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia