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

[Mark Marlette]

Frank,

I'm sure they are out there. Unless they are buying in large qtys or  
they are losing there butt at that price. The CF connector alone costs  
more than that.

One's loss is another's gain. :)

Mark

Quoting Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com>:

>
> 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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