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CompactFlash / IDE Interface for Apple II

Posted by timothy on from the not-for-everyone dept.

jutpm writes: "This page describes a project to create an IDE / CompactFlash Interface card for 8 bit Apple II series of computers. The card is ProDOS 8 compatible and supports up to 64 Meg (two ProDOS 32Meg drives). I am very impressed with the work this guys work. Definitely a case of old technology meeting new."

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  1. Talk about pinching pennies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    For god's sake, man! Get yourself a newer computer!

    1. Re:Talk about pinching pennies by Mr_Matt · · Score: 3, Funny

      In related news, NVidia announced today it's providing binary-only driver support for its line of GeForce video cards used in wooden abacuses. When asked about this, a company spokesperson replied "Well, we know there's virtually no market for putting a 3-D accelerated device driver for an analog computer without a display, but what the hell, it's a slow newsday on Slashdot, so why not get the geeks drooling?"

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  2. Finally! by Drakula · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last piece I need for my Apple ][e mp3 jukebox!

    j/k

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    1. Re:Finally! by Yakko · · Score: 2, Funny
      Quoting from Dilbert here in regards to the time required to decode an mp3:

      I don't have an exact timeline, but it's about the same time the Sun becomes a cold dark chunk of coal the size of your forehead.
      I think you'd at least be able to go grab a pizza before you hear anything. :o)
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  3. I love my Commodore 64! by diwolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I was a lad, and my brother had a C64, and I bought an Apple //c, he laughed at me because my Apple only went 'beep, beep, beep' while his C64 played music, and had better graphics. Well, the jokes on him now! I can still use my Apple to play Asteroid--now with 64MB!! Geeze, I can load Appleworks into memory like 500 times, and still have room left over!

    Boy, technology sure has come a LONG way!

  4. The real question on everyones' minds is.. by sid_vicious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you punch a hole in the corner of the flash card and flip it over?

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  5. Yee-haw! Let me know when the Commodore 64 version by Myself · · Score: 2, Funny

    is finished. :)

    LOAD "*",8

    (retrieve munchies from fridge)

    (complain that the 1541 drive is a slow P.O.S.)

    (fall asleep)

    READY.

  6. By the lack of activity on that link... by BoBathan · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd have to say that the Apple II doesn't make a very good web server.

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  7. This seems backward by pagercam2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The controller in the harddisk is probably 10 times faster than the 2MHz 6502, so isn't this really an apple II emulator for an IDE drive/CF card???

  8. Re:almost as useful as an MP3 player for a Newton by psych031337 · · Score: 4, Funny
    this sounds like a really good hack, by my own definition of Good Hack, which is "do something nobody else has done yet, that's really hard and at the same time, almost completely useless to most people"

    To quote the (in)famous words of Wau Holland (founder of the german EFF-pendant CCC): "You're a hacker when you're stuck with nothing but a cup of noodles and coffee machine but still manage to have a warm meal."

    May he rest in piece.
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