R&D Automation is selling the Project: CFFA interface card, which allows users of the Apple II computers to use CompactFlash cards for storage. Since most Apple II software is stored on floppy disks—far from the most robust long-term storage medium—many users are using the $109 cards to backup their old timey favorites to something a bit more stable. Of course, adding a few thousand times the solid state storage than was originally available for the Apple II is pretty great, too. You can finally build that less-than-real-time MP3 player for the Apple //e you’ve always wanted.
Even better, in the spirit of open schematics and firmware listings like the original Apple II, they’ve provided all the software and hardware specs so you can build one for yourself, if you’d rather. (Thanks, Gruverja!)
Project Page [Dreher]
