Re: Options for IIc hard drive

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> wrote

>
> No need to reverse engineer anything. The Smartport protocol (hw & sw) is
> well documented. All you need is a small card with some logic to interface
> to the Smartport bus (a CPLD should do the trick or an IWM chip as used in
> the UniDisk 3.5 drive), a CPU (65c02 @ 2MHz would probably suffice but
pick
> whatever chip you want), some RAM and Flash for the code and finally a
SCSI
> controller chip if you want to interface SCSI disks to the file://c or
perhaps
> some more logic to interface to IDE ATA/ATAPI drives would be better. The
> most difficult parts to obtain would probably be the D19 plugs and
sockets...
> --

Interesting. Considering the mountains of 5.25" drives with those cables
which are available for a song, I'd say the hard part is pretty easy.  Here
in the US, there are/were zillions of them used in schools, which are now
surplus.
-Paul