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  • DominoDisk - miniature SmartPort drive

    From D Finnigan@3:633/10 to All on Monday, March 30, 2026 18:38:20
    The DominoDisk is a micro-SD backed hard disk drive for the Apple II.

    Its main feature is its daisy-chaining port, meaning that you can plug
    another storage device after it. It aims at being a simple hard disk, and
    comes with a period-correct set of features (store and access data, let the user use their external floppy drives in conjunction with itself).

    Its form-factor, however, is definitely not period-correct, providing 128MB
    of storage in a 46x46mm footprint. It aims at being almost invisible in your setup, be it behind an Apple IIc, IIgs or floppy drive. The device is unobtrusive. The microSD card can be removed and inserted without unplugging the device from the computer (but not when the computer is on!) on both
    Apple IIc and IIgs. It is short enough that you can still have your Apple
    IIc sit under the Monitor stand.

    Take a look:
    https://www.colino.net/wordpress/shop/apple-ii/dominodisk/ https://www.colino.net/wordpress/burgerdisk-an-apple-ii-smartport-hard-drive/


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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Colin Leroy-Mira@3:633/10 to All on Friday, April 03, 2026 08:54:34
    Hi,

    The DominoDisk is a micro-SD backed hard disk drive for the Apple II.

    That's my thing! Thanks for sharing! :-)

    Its form-factor, however, is definitely not period-correct, providing

    There is a version of the device that has a correct form-factor, the
    same as a 3.5" floppy drive. This one can also use a full size SD card
    instead of a MicroSD, which might be an advantage for our old cranky
    fingers ;-)
    https://www.colino.net/wordpress/shop/apple-ii/burgerdisk/

    --
    Colin


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From I3arana@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 07:45:38
    D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> Wrote in message:

    The DominoDisk is a micro-SD backed hard disk drive for the Apple II.

    Its main feature is its daisy-chaining port, meaning that you can plug another storage device after it. It aims at being a simple hard disk, and comes with a period-correct set of features (store and access data, let the user use their external floppy drives in conjunction with itself).

    Its form-factor, however, is definitely not period-correct, providing 128MB of storage in a 46x46mm footprint. It aims at being almost invisible in your setup, be it behind an Apple IIc, IIgs or floppy drive. The device is unobtrusive. The microSD card can be removed and inserted without unplugging the device from the computer (but not when the computer is on!) on both
    Apple IIc and IIgs. It is short enough that you can still have your Apple
    IIc sit under the Monitor stand.

    Take a look:
    https://www.colino.net/wordpress/shop/apple-ii/dominodisk/ https://www.colino.net/wordpress/burgerdisk-an-apple-ii-smartport-hard-drive/



    Ntb :-) will you be supporting the 8 volumes per slot of prodos 2.5 ?
    -- makes a difference with the 8 bits

    ~Die then Soar~

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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Colin Leroy-Mira@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 18:32:43
    Hi,

    Ntb :-) will you be supporting the 8 volumes per slot of prodos 2.5 ?
    -- makes a difference with the 8 bits

    No, there's not enough memory on the Atmega328P to handle 8
    concurrently opened file descriptors.
    --
    Colin
    https://www.colino.net/


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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)