SIO2SD with or without the case?

[Atari-Collector]

Other then the obvious facts of the case, is there any different in an SIO2SD with or without a case except the big difference in price? Which I can't s why the big difference.. So at the risk of sounding dum yet again, I"m asking the question ...

[flashjazzcat]

None that I know of.

[+slx]

Functionally no, but casing is not that easy as you need to cater for five buttons, three LEDs and a display which - at least in my version - are all at different "heights".

[flashjazzcat]

I made about a dozen of these bad-boys:

 

 

[Level42]

It's a lot of work to case them and hours=money.

 

Flash jazzy: do you also make XL looking one's ?

Edited January 8, 2015 by Level42

[flashjazzcat]

I have been known to:

 

 

Actually I sold my own XL version and need to make a replacement (I have a 1064 case lying around), but I can't muster the enthusiasm since I rarely use the SIO2SD device now.

[Atari-Collector]

I have been known to:

 

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Actually I sold my own XL version and need to make a replacement (I have a 1064 case lying around), but I can't muster the enthusiasm since I rarely use the SIO2SD device now.

 

Why don't you use it very often??

[Atari-Collector]

Functionally no, but casing is not that easy as you need to cater for five buttons, three LEDs and a display which - at least in my version - are all at different "heights".

 

I just bought on the floppy drive emulators he makes for my TRS-80, so once I get that and see how it runs I'll probably get an SIO2SD. I do have 3 good Atari floppy drive, and a homemade SIO2PC.. But I'm think a SD card solution would be a easy way to put all my disk in one place and make it fairly easy to move between my 800 and 600XL I may go do a cased version since I've never been that great on building custom cases.

[flashjazzcat]

Why don't you use it very often??

It was just kind of superseded by the various HDD solutions and SIO2PC for what I typically do (development). I found poking away at those buttons a little fiddly as well, especially when the later firmwares came out.