PicoIDE in a Mac?

These will be very useful if you need specialty geometry, image-based optical emulation, audio output, a screen, image swapping, or other "fancy" features. IMHO, if all you need is basic bulk storage CF cards work just fine. $70 isn't unreasonable at all for a bespoke retro project but it is a fair bit higher than a CF card and cheap adapter.

Don't get me wrong, PicoIDE looks great and I'm planning to get one for my old PCs, but for IDE Macs with onboard SCSI I think using an existing modern SCSI emulator is a better approach: they're marginally cheaper and are able to present multiple drives from one peripheral (I think that's on the PicoIDE roadmap but isn't implemented yet, though AFAIK the Mac controllers don't support more than 1 drive anyway).
 
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