Re: Profile HD- What is necessary to make it work w/ the II's

[Stephen Harker <sjh@phadfa.ph.adfa.edu.au>]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> writes:

> Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> [...]
> : The low level formatting on the Profile mechs do not last forever.
> : You can't low level format without special hardware setup.  For
> : what it is worth FOR AN APPLE II USER, it seems better to
> : convert.

That's what I thought in 1989 when I converted one of my crashed
Profiles to a SCSI drive.  The 40 MB Quantum SCSI drive seemed a vast
improvement over my old 10 MB Profile, which had not worked for a year
at the time.  I can see the point of other people needs however.
Indeed, you may well be able to sell a non-working Profile for
sufficient money to someone who wanted to resurrect it for another
machine when compared to the cost of an old SCSI drive and enclosure.
So even from an economic point of view it may be worth investigating
not gutting the machine.

> I have a Profile analog board with the piggyback chip on it, along with
> my IIIs. I bet these are in a good deal of Profiles out there. I just need
> the software for the III and I can do low level formats. The board came from
> a Profile which Steve B converted over. He also set me up with an Apple II
> Profile card.

Interesting.  Back in Melbourne I have a copy of the software, but not
the piggyback chip for formatting.  If you still have problems
obtaining the software, then next time I visit relatives there
(probably near Christmas) I could try to find it and send a copy.

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Stephen Harker                                        s-harker@adfa.edu.au
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