One thing I'd really like to see is a single board computer that plugs into a
USB and/or SATA cable on one end and a pair of PATA cables and a floppy cable
on the other. You put a multi-terabyte hard drive or SSD (or several of them)
at the USB/SATA end, and an old PC at the PATA end, then
Some of the Lo-tech boards and other replicas end up on eBay and are
sometimes less expensive (at least in the US).
Another small time maker, Monotech [0], has also produced boards. I
sort of consider them semi-expensive. Especially considering that
they don't seem to be original designs. They
The retrocomputing crowd has a lot of these projects now, and they
generally work. Most are based on open source designs so the quality will
vary from vendor to vendor.
The 8 bit IDE cards for example are based on a project called XT-IDE that I
was part of back in 2008/2009. (See the genesis of
