"I wish there was a ~$60ish CF card or SD card board for the IIGS!" $100 cash may get you a MicroDrive/Turbo for the IIgs if you ask really nicely. :-) Let me know off list and I could bring one. You could however piece together an older CFFA or MicroDrive for about $60 in parts. You would need a proto PCB for a backbone, but the rest is pretty standard parts. I also have a broken CFFA is you want a fun project repairing it. Henry S. Courbis Office Toll Free: (800) REACTIVE (732-2848) Office/Mobile Direct: (856) 779-1900 www.ReActiveMicro.com <http://www.ReactiveMicro.com> - Sales, Support, and News, Our Headquarters on the Internet ReActiveMicro.com/wiki - Support, Software, Manuals, and History. Create your own page today! Facebook.com/reactivemicrousa - Our Social Media Outlet and Support On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I hear you joseph. I prefer using the actual hardware from the given timeframe. I like the modern solutions to help me get the images from Internet to floppy media (or hard drives) and for quick access to a given title so I can test it on a certain machine and then transfer to floppy. I also love having all my diagnostic software handy in one place (even though I've got actual floppies of all of them anyway!)
I was actually responding to Ethan's email about wishing there was a ~$60ish cf or sd card for the IIgs. Tony
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On Mar 29, 2017, at 11:57 AM, Joseph Marlin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I actually already have a Floppy Emu banging around that I got for basically free a while back, and I have external floppy drives and ADT anyhow. Actually, I also have it set up to boot off of LocalTalk from one of my powermacs. I really just want a SCSI card so that I can have some permanent standalone storage that's also period-accurate and also literally just so I can play with synthlab-- I can install it on my AppleTalk share, but it turns out synthlab won't start up with AppleTalk active.
Thanks for the suggestion, though!
If you want simple and inexpensive the sddisk][ form Plamen in Bulgaria hooks directly to the disk II controller card.