Subj : Re: Apple IIe hardware
To   : Spectre
From : paulie420
Date : Sun May 05 2024 20:42:04

 Sp>  pa> My IIe is complete and working, but fully vintage; 4 5.25" drives, 2 
 Sp>  pa> drives - but I never got a 'current' solution like the Big Mess o Wir
 Sp>  pa> SDCard floppy emulator...
 Sp> 
 Sp> Noice.  The floppyemu works pretty well. I have some foibles here with
 Sp> mine, but I'm unsure if its marginal on the ribbon cables, changing them
 Sp> does seem to alleviate issues for a while, or its the floppy controller,
 Sp> although I had tried a few different ones...

Hmmmm - I've heard a lot of good about the Big Mess O Wires one... I just haven't had the $ to order one yet. You know... I saw another youtuber product that converts a 5.25" metal drive shell into a floppy emulater - but man ... he's charging like $250 for a 3d printed piece of plastic; and $440 for an entire kit w/ the metal shell... I just can't get behind that. Retro computing should be open source and I AGREE, I'm sure it took weeks and months to design the product - but I cannot get behind charging for it. Let alone a fair price ($50) but ... $440??? Freaking insane IMO.



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