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Re: A wishful thought?
- Subject: Re: A wishful thought?
- From: mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca
- Date: 1999/12/05
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Society For Orange Pavement
- References: <Mvg24.11315$LX2.899266@brie.direct.ca> <6mi24.334$Kc5.46095@typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net> <R1j24.11341$LX2.904363@brie.direct.ca> <david.944370388@wraith>
- Reply-to: mystix@NOSPAMdirect.ca
In <david.944370388@wraith>, david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson) writes:
>mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca writes:
>>You the ability to use Apple drives would be more convienient than trying to
>>produce images. But you're right on the issue of the SWIM chips. ROMs could be
>>easily be pulled out of existing GS's, but the disk controller chips aren't socketed.
>
>The //gs only used the IWM and they are socketed in //c and Mac 128/512/Plus/SE
>motherboards.
I stand corrected. The SWIM chips were in the HD 3.5 drive cards that allowed the
usage of high density disks on an Apple II.