From Woz on the IWM

[cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)]

I read the question on CSA2 posted about the IWM yesterday and
wrote Woz on it.  FWIW -- his full reply follows below:
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From: Steve Wozniak <steve@woz.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2002, 11:01 PM
To: "Tom" <cturley@mcn.org>
Subject: Re: Some personal feedback on the IWM chip from you - please!

At 6:21 PM -0800 2002.03.13, Tom wrote:

>Somebody asked about this -- "Could someone enlighten me about the function
>of an IWM in a
>Smartport to SCSI converter?  I thought the IWM was basically
>a Disk ][ controller on a chip.
>
>It must be more than that.  Does it implement Smartport protocols
>(which I thought would be in firmware)."  -- I thought you'd be able best to
>give me an answer and
>some feedback on this.
>
>Looking forward to your reply and hope all is going great for you.

Sorry, I don't know the answer. I'm not up on the Smartport protocols, but
there's
some chance that the IWM could be used for this, due to the fact that it is
basically
a small state machine controlling a serial to parallel shift register.
-- 

Steve Wozniak  (OK, a new size TV)

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I figured this would be a good email to relate just for whatever value it
relates on
the IWM.

Cheers,
Tom