[Coco] [Color Computer] [coco] SCSI trouble > now NITROS9? and the need for storage

[Frank Pittel]

Mark,

You beat me to asking the question!!  :-)

Frank


On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:19:20AM -0500, Mark Marlette wrote:
> Gene,
> 
> Can you please provide your ide<->cf source for $3?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> Quoting Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:
> 
> >On Friday 25 May 2007, Joel Ewy wrote:
> >>George's Coco Address wrote:
> >>>...
> >>>
> >>>THE NEED FOR STORAGE...
> >>>
> >>>Well, I've been thinking that if we had a SCSI adapter to read and
> >>>write to one of those memory sticks, or XD or whatever, it would be
> >>>pretty cool. Then, it would be really fast to save the memory device
> >>>to another, more powerful computer and to perhaps a CD.
> >>>I think this is already available for IDE systems, but a SCSI adapter
> >>>would be good for us "old timers".
> >>
> >>Allen Huffman mentioned to me that he got an adapter that allows you to
> >>use an IDE device on a SCSI bus and intends to use it on his MM/1.  If
> >>you can find one of those little jobbies, you should be able to plug an
> >>IDE <-> Compact Flash adapter into it, and use a CF card on the IDE
> >>bus.  I don't think you could as easily get other types of flash memory
> >>cards work on the SCSI bus though.
> >>
> >>JCE
> >>
> >The ide<->cf adaptor is about 3 bucks, got 2 of them here, one in an old
> >k6-III equipt box is running dd-wrt for a firewall.  No hard drive or 
> >floppy
> >in the box, nothing but 3 nics.  Best kept secret in router/firewalls ever 
> >&
> >a good use for an old slow obsolete box.
> >
> >Go and look for me, the ip is 72.65.70.103, I'm curious to see if you can 
> >see
> >me.
> >
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