Re: Using an Apple HD 20 on a IIGS

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

If someone has an ORIGINAL UDC card (not the jungle chipped one) we might be
able to reverse engineer it.

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:29:53 GMT, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:

> Tim Haynes wrote:
>
>>>> Thanks David, I thought that might be the case, bummer.
>>>
>>> Try contacting a company called VTECH. It should be out of Vancouver BC
>>> in Canada. They produced a universal disk controller. I had one. It
>>> worked really well. They *may* still have some in stock. If not maybe
>>> you can convince them to release the schematics/plans into the public
>>> domain so a third party can continue development. If it can be adapted
>>> to the 1.4/1.6 Mb floppies as well then we may have another Superdrive
>>> controller.
>>>
>>> Later
>>> Mike
>>
>>
>> You actually used such a device to control an HD20?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tim
>
> 	No. But the suggestion was made earlier in the thread a UDC
> *might* do the job if any were around. I used it to control a Unidisk on a
> my //e at the time. I merely mentioned a potential source.
>
> 	If someone could get the schematics and update it we could be
> looking at something useful for both the GS and earlier slotted Apples.
>
> 				Later
> 				Mike
>
>

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