Re: Mac Plus external HD on //c?

[Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net>]

Louis Schulman wrote:

> Well, this makes no sense.  The HD20 (non-scsi) is pretty rare, so very few
> people could benefit by this hack.  Further, the HD20 is very valuable and
> collectible, since it is the only hard drive that will work with a Mac 128
> or 512, and it also works well with the Mac Plus.
>

I have two of these drives, and several IIc/IIc+'s, and 128K, 512K,
512KE, 4 or 5 Pluses, etc. I find these drives pretty regularly, I've
sold the rest. I'd love to be able to use one with my IIc/IIc+. The IIc
drives are very rare, I've never seen one. 
 
> So if you have one, and don't have one of these Macs, why don't you just sell
> it and be done with it? 

It's a matter of the HD20 being relatively common, and the IIc drives
being very rare. Sounds like it's moot, though, since it isn't likely
that anyone will figure out how to make the HD20 work with a IIc. 

To the guy who commented that these drives are lousy and slow: Ha ha ha!
Try the alternative on a 512K, which is 400K floppies! As far as speed
goes... the attraction of Apple II's and 512K Macs is not speed, no one
concerned with speed uses either of them. 
-Paul