Category: Disk Storage
R&D Automation, makers of the CFFA Compact Flash drive card for the Apple I and II series computers, has announced the immediate availability of the latest version of the CFFA 3000 Firmware for beta testers. The CFFA 3000 is a dual drive multi-capability card that R&D has been working on for about 2 years now. The card is in final stages of development and release of the initial order of cards is forthcoming. The following email was received by the…
The Entire run of 200 of the new CFFA3000 cards have sold out. This run was released just over 4 weeks ago and according to Rich Dreher, “this run probably sold out quickly due to the long development time frame”. Rich is now taking emails for a second run but he is saying that it could be 6 to 12 months prior to said run being completed. For more information about the CFFA3000 and other cards by Rich Dreher, check…
This article is a variation/enhancement to a post I found at http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=9289 for a FreeNAS server. Of course purely Mac folks would likely want to stick with the AFP protocol. In terms of generalities the NFS server does not necessarily have to be running FreeNAS. It just has to work. FreeNAS is basically a “Swiss Army Knife” of external storage. I find it does a lot of things very easily. It doesn’t work on all machines (I’ve had a 60%…
By Mike Thyng In the previous articles, we’ve discussed types of files – sequential and random – and general facts and figures about the PERSCI floppy disk drive. This issue I’d like to explore some of the actual commands necessary to get data to and from the diskettes. Before you can write a file, you have to do something called “opening” it. This defines to your program that some related data – let’s say names and addresses – is going…
COMPUTER COMPONENTS – formerly known as COMPUTER PLAYGROUND offers some large storage for Apple users in the form of PERSCI floppy drives. This is the first in a series of articles about the “large” floppies available for the Apple ][ The drive is the PerSci Model 277 dual diskette drive. this means it has two eight inch floppy disk surfaces with approximately 256,000 bytes for storage. Half a million bytes of disc storage per drive! optionally selectable is the dual…
