Re: Using Mac 20 meg HD on A2 drive port???

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <63stbt$klc$1@lynx.unm.edu>,
stephen e buggie <buggie@argo.unm.edu> wrote:

>Some of the older Macintoshes have an external hard drive that connects
>via the db-19 external drive port.  These units are for sale CHEAPLY on
>the Mac marketplace network.

I can't remember the last time I saw one of these for sale, and I read the
forsale groups and the AOL classified ads daily. I don't think they go that
cheaply.

>I've heard that these units wont work on Apple II, but WHY NOT?

They're not made to work, the short answer.

[snip]

>Think of how many thousands of IIc users would love to use these external
>hard drives!!!

I highly doubt that thousands of these were built, even less likely that
thousands still exist and would be on the market. I even doubt that thousands
of people would be interested. I'm not even though I own an HD20 already.
But then again I have a CT20-c hard disk as well.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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