Re: Hard Drive for Apple IIc+

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com>]

InnerDrive was the product name for their internal drive.  They also
made an OuterDrive that was an external...at least for the IIGS.  The
company name was Applied Ingenuity (not to be confused with Applied
Engineering...which was a different company).
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Penman wrote:
> 
> Dean wrote:
> 
> >just to see what was up, on the inside of the IIc plus, i opened it up.
> >my question is where would you connect a hard drive, and what kind of
> >controler do you need? j13 in side is a 34 pin connector and is for the
> 
> SNIP
> 
> Dean--the //c was never designed for use with a hard drive, so there's no
> place on the motherboard to connect a controller card.  There were a
> couple of options available, but they're now so rare that if you see one,
> don't hesitate to snap them up, regardless of their condition.
> 
> The 1st was a drive made by Chinook and later marketed by Sequential
> Systems.  It plugged into the disk port on the back of the computer, and
> had a pass-thru for any external drive you happened to be using.  SInce it
> had to work at the port speed, it was slow, but usable.
> 
> The 2nd, made by InnerDrive (memory jog here if the name of the company is
> wrong) replaced the internal floppy drive.  I never saw one of these in
> person, and I'm not sure how many were produced, but I gathered that since
> it used the internal floppy's connections, it too would have run at the
> slower speed.  (Like I said, I remember reading about these, but I don't
> recall if they ever made it into production.)
> 
> Penman
> 
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