Return of the CFFA3000
Good news for Apple II folks: The CFFA3000 is coming back ! (It had been discontinued by the creator; from a July 29, 2019 update post : “I currently have no plans to make a new Gen 4 CFFA. So this is most likely the end of the line.”) Prior to this announcement, CFFA3000 cards were selling for an average of over $450, on eBay. What’s the CFFA3000? It lets 8-bit (II, II+, IIe) and 16-bit IIgs) Apple computers use solid state storage. Multiple 32MB “hard drive” or 143K/400K/800K “floppy disk” images can be mounted simultaneously, from a compact flash card or USB stick. It’s a seriously slick piece of equipment, and part of a panoply of devices that have me going “seriously?!” (I can’t believe so much active development is still being done on a platform that debuted in 1977 (Apple II; 1986 for the 16-bit IIgs) and has been discontinued for decades ... VidHD (HDMI output). Uthernet II (Ethernet). Mass Storage: BOOTI (possibly the cheapest option?). A2SCSI (a clone of the Rev. C A...