Re: IWM and un-suitable drives for Macs

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <e9BD5.139$Gs4.203369@news.pacbell.net>,
Charles Stephens <charles_stephens@hotmail.com> wrote:
}I wonder why 1.44 drives don't work then?  I recall that the original Mac II
}didn't support these drives until Apple came out with newer ROMs for the
}machine.  I am certain they use the same IWM ASIC on all of there machines.
}The Inside Mac and Apple IIgs reference manuals seem to have the same pin
}out for both.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you, it's what you do know that
ain't so.  The original Mac II used the original IWM.  The Mac IIx and
subsequent machines used the SWIM (Sanders-Wozniak Integrated Machine,
or sometimes Super Wozniak Integrated Machine).  They are pin
compatible.
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Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
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