XT ISA card to add harddisk to Sidecar?

[curtis]

You might check out the XT-IDE project.

8-bit IDE card with advanced BIOS that will accept almost any IDE drive.  It's a half-size card so will have no problems fitting in a Sidecar.

Andrew Lynch has been posting them on fleabay for $125 fully assembled and testing.  IF I remember correctly his ebay moniker is ajlynch.

Curtis

[curtis]

Yeah, pre DOS 3.2 max limit was 40Mb.  I think DOS 5.0 raised that to 300-400Mb or somewhere in that range.

Drives that size do pop up fairly often on fleabay for (usually) not a whole lot of $$$.  Or, if they have garage/estate/boot sales wherever you're at, you can usually find older computers you can salvage the hard drive and toss the rest or part it out.  These are usually pretty cheap also.