Rich Dreher has announced that a new run of CFFA3000 boards will be available sometime later this year. Pre-orders are not currently being taken, but you can get on his email list to be notified about details as they become available. This will also help Rich gauge interest in the next run. Project Status: 4/23/2013: […]
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Another run of CFFA1s
Rich Dreher, creator of the popular CFFA line of Apple-1 and Apple II expansion boards, has announced that cards from the next run of 200 CFFA1 are now available to order for $109.95 + shipping.Ă‚ The CFFA1 is compatible with Vince Briel’s Replica 1, Mike Willegal’s Apple 1 Mimeo, the Obtronix clone, and of course, […]
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New CFFA3000 Firmware released
Rich Dreher has released a new firmware (3.1) for his popular CFFA3000 card. Ă‚ This latest update offers, among other things, folder support on FAT volumes, “making it easier to organize a large number of disk image files.” Ă‚ Per David Schmidt’s post to comp.sys.apple 2, here’s a list of everything you can expect when you flash […]
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Open Apple podcast #17 (July 2012) now available
The July 2012 episode of Open Apple, the Apple II community’s only co-hosted podcast, is now available. This month, Mike and Ken speak with Rich Dreher, developer of the CompactFlash For Apple (CFFA) card. The first batch of CFFA3000 cards sold out in 2011, and the second batch is now shipping with similar sales numbers. […]
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CFFA3000 Run #2 is almost here
Rich Dreher updated his project status page yesterday with the following: The assembly house has just informed me that they have shipped 280 (a little over half of the batch) CFFA3000 boards and Remotes to me. They should be here next week. The remaining 220 boards will follow in a few more weeks. I will […]
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CFFA3000 second run planned for summer 2012
Rich Dreher has announced his plans for a second run of CFFA3000 cards. Ă‚ This is great news for those who didn’t get in on the first run of cards last year. Ă‚ From Rich’s page atĂ‚ dreher.net: “We are now in the process of getting final quotes on parts for run #2 of the CFFA3000. We hope […]
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CFFA3000 prototype debuts
Rich Dreher’s CFFA3000 prototype has made its public debut (at least an assembled version has). It doesn’t work yet; Rich says there is still much work to be done with the card’s logic before it’s ready… but if all goes as planned, the new card is projected to be completed by mid-2010. In addition to […]