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Colin McMillen
Colin McMillen
@colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

I have started soldering and assembling some #BurgerDisk units for the kickstarter... But I've run out of Arduinos and will soon be out of PCBs, and MicroSD modules. I'll have to wait for the postman to continue!
#RetroComputing

Picture of my "workbench" (which is a table) with 5 of my hard drives being assembled. They're in various levels of completion. Some lack an Arduino.
Picture of my "workbench" (which is a table) with 5 of my hard drives being assembled. They're in various levels of completion. Some lack an Arduino.
Picture of my "workbench" (which is a table) with 5 of my hard drives being assembled. They're in various levels of completion. Some lack an Arduino.
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Justine Smithies
Justine Smithies
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Are they kind of fake hard drives for apple II computers ? Sorry for my ignorance just interested.

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Colin McMillen
Colin McMillen
@colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@justine Yes, based on Arduinos and microSD cards.
That existed already, but my device has a bonus feature that I wanted, a second connector so one can also connect a floppy drive instead of choosing one or the other

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Justine Smithies
Justine Smithies
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Cool so these connect to an apple floppy disk card or something else ?

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Colin McMillen
Colin McMillen
@colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@justine They connect to the floppy DB19 port, but they require firmware support for the Smartport protocol (present in Apple IIgs, IIc with all but the oldest ROM, and as extension cards for the IIe)

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Justine Smithies
Justine Smithies
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Ok thank you for explaining.

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