Alex “Lukazi” Lukacz of Brisbane Australia wrote in to tell us about his CHED project. The purpose of CHED is to completely replace the floppy and hard disk drives with a disk image-based system featuring an LCD interface. Alex has posted a few entries detailing his progress on CHED and pictures too. Check them out, it looks like an interesting bit of work.
At A2Central, we love reading about people like Alex in the community who share our passion for hacking on the Apple II. As retro-computing enthusiasts, we know all about the unique challenges of our hobby; restoring old (often hard to come by) hardware, adapting new gear to work with the old. The approaches we take to solving these problems differ and sometimes the results aren’t what we intended but we’re having a lot of fun in process.