From: bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net   
      
   On 1/14/11 10:48 PM, in article   
   Pine.LNX.4.64.1101142244400.7176@darkstar.example.net, "Michael Black"   
    wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Bob Campbell wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article   
   >> <6056a697-4079-4dd5-9c96-741256fefd78@c39g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,   
   >> turnkit  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Does anyone know of a Model III interface to a CF that emulates a   
   >>> Model III hard drive?   
   >>>   
   >>> I'd like to build one -- M4 or M1 would be okay too.   
   >>>   
   >>> I want to try to get my Model III booting off a CF "hard drive" and   
   >>> have it full of M3 software.   
   >>   
   >> I'm pretty sure there is/was one, but I don't remember the details.   
   >>   
   > Compactflash cards have some sort of IDE mode, so they can be connected to   
   > an IDE interface with an adapter that simply remaps the pinouts (or maybe   
   > not even that, maybe it just changes the IDE connector to one that fits   
   > the Compactflash drive.   
   >   
   > Given that, I thought there was an IDE adapter for the Model III.  I   
   > vaguely remember something like that.  An IDE adapter is pretty easy,   
   > some address decoding and some bus buffering, since it's just an   
   > extension of the existing bus.   
      
      
   The OP needs to check the Yahoo! TRS-80 group at   
   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/TRS-80/ for some recent posts on the   
   topic...   
      
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