Re: Controller card to my HD?

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

In article <5c197h$l39@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>,
Paul H Bauer <pbauer@athena.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>
>In article <5c0sto$iuf@nntp.hut.fi>, Paul Dunkel <pdunkel@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>>I have now found out that there is a HD inside my GS' power supply. I
>>don't know if it works, but I think I should give it a try. However, it
>>looks like there should be a controller card at the end of the 50-pin
>>flat cable that cames out from the power-case... Any hints on what card
>>I should try to buy?
> 
>   My earlier post/email today mentioned something: there are only 2
>internal powersupply + HDs for the Apple II series, namely the AE
>Vulcan or the AI InnerDrive. Each has its own controller card. Figure
>what kind of drive it should be, and you'll know which card to get.
> 
> 
>       I would like to correct Mr. Mates. There is a company in Florida
>called Space Coast Systems Inc that marketed a hard drive in a power supply
>for the A2 computer line. It had a HD power supply and a 20 meg HD all in
>the PS case with a small ribbon vable exiting to a proprietry interface
>card. I picked up a unit at a flea market and found that the drive mech was
>def. It was the same size as a SCSI drive so I replaced and am now using it
>in a GS in a 2e case which is a nice package to take to user meetings as
>all I have to carry is the CPU box and a LCD unit for the viewgraph
>projector.

And finally there was the Pegasus from Econ, which I wish I would have 
bought one of. But the build-it-yourself with no hard disk in it was $200
at the time so I made do with externals. 

Oh yeah that Space Coast one was called Challenger if I'm remembering my
old mag ads right. It got crummy reviews as being pricey, doubling the
weight of the CPU, and requiring disassembly of the CPU. I think it predated
the IIgs so there was only a //e version.

Well now that my memory has been jogged, the article I read about the 
Challenger also reviwed a drive called the CMC Quick-20. The reviewer
was similarly unimpressed with it. I'd say that those two would be
massively rare, much more so than my CT-20c for example.

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Randy Shackelford                                 
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