Re: Options for IIc hard drive

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

Randy Shackelford <shack@southwind.net> wrote in message
news:IriX5.179$gN.68474@nntp1.onemain.com...
> In article <3a2c6d66@naylor.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
> Matt Jenkins  <mdj@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >>> Be interesting to try and reverse-engineer that drive...
> >
> >> Sure would.  A file://c hard drive is sort of one of those
quasi-mythical things
> >> a goodly number of people would like to have, myself included.
> >
> >It wouldn't be that hard. The idea behind it's operation is very similar
> >to the UniDisk 3.5"
>
> Pretty healthy sized circuit board in there doing the SCSI/protocol
converter
> conversion, doubt it'd be so trivial.

I'd guess the easiest approach would be a software solution on a PC, with a
cable and as little additional circuitry as possible in hardware. I don't
see why the PC couldn't respond to commands via a cable, and feed the Apple
the data it expects.  You could even just have a compact case 386 or 486
boot without a monitor or keyboard and run the program via the autoexec.bat.
It would just be like a large hard disk case...
-Paul