8-bit IDE

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Tue Apr 18 08:36:40 2000

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jim Strickland wrote:

> I know someone has made an ide hard card for the 8 bit apple 2 bus that takes
> modern IDE drives, including the 1 inch notebook drives. I'm unclear how it
> was done, but you can buy one at www.allelec.com/harddiap.htm .

It maps the high Byte to low byte like most do. There si also a coco-ide
mod that works the same way. the drawings for the COCO ide is suggest
a simple design as well but expects the IDE to be 16bits for data as do
most otehrs I've seen.

Allison
Received on Tue Apr 18 2000 - 08:36:40 BST