I'm thinking it's possible to create a small system from mostly off-the-shelf parts with some additional software that would be able to do one or more of the following:
- Let 8-bit computers save files to the device as if it's a cassette drive
- Connect to a Commodore 8-bit machine using the IEC serial bus and act as a very large disk (no 1541 compatibility, though)
- Connect to a any computer with a serial port (and the Commodore 64) and let those connect to BBSes on the internet through telnet
- Connect to any computer with a serial port and provide a BBS-like interface for downloading and uploading files to/from the device
- Connect to any computer with a serial port that has a networking stack and act like a dial-up modem for connecting to the internet and FTP'ing files to/from the device
- Connect to an Amiga over the parallel port for faster internet connectivity and file transfers to/from the device
- Provide a web interface to modern computers for managing files and settings
- Let modern computers (and networked Amigas) access files through the SMB protocol
For Amigas the network access would be pretty slow compared to a Zorro card or PCMCIA network adapter, but the advantage would be easy Wi-Fi connectivity, and compatibility with all Amigas.
Would you pay something like $60 for such a device?
Or suggest a different price.
Pricing may differ according to the cables you require. I'm thinking there would be 3.5 mm connectors for the cassette functionality and a serial port, but possibly special cables required to connect to the Commodore IEC and user ports and possibly for the Amiga parallel port.
This could be a Kickstarter project.