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CompactFlash / IDE Interface for Apple II
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."
...but usually when I see an article or bit of "old-meets-new" tech news, it has a real purpose. Like having a better way to get old heirchical (sp?) data off a legacy system mainframe. But this piece leads to the question of "Who needs to expand their Apple II?"
The Apple II was a desktop system, not a big mainframe. I have my doubts that many critical systems were built for the Apple II. I doubt even more that those critical systems, if they ever existed at all, weren't converted to some other system years ago.
Again, I don't want to take away from the sheer "geek-cool" factor of this. It's a neat little technological achievement. But, for the life of me, I can't think of a useful thing to accomplish with it.
My sigs always suck.
How the hell does this get moderated as a troll?
It's a perfectly valid point.
WHY!
Why the hell bother? Does the guy building this thing have absolutely no life?
Why hark back to "The Good Old Days" when they weren't "Good" at all! What was so good about the "Good Old Days" when computers were painfully slow and unfriendly and games consisted of "move the blob and fire a smaller blob at another blob", and if you HAD a wordprocessor you had no idea what stuff was going to come out like or even if it would at all!
Fuck that. I'll take my 2Ghz P4 over any clapped out old Apple II any day.
This whole exercise is a pointless waste of time. The guy doing this obviously has some skill, knowledge and talent, and it's a damn shame he's choosing to waste it on some old crap.
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