Re: Quark drive

[tmmadden@engin.umich.edu (Thomas M. Madden)]

In article <4todce$7qc@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
Krinibar <krinibar@aol.com> wrote:
>Just bought a Quark 10 meg hard drive.  What is it?  How does it work? 
>Looks like it will toggle between Apple II & Mac.

The Quark is a funny little (well, not exactly "little") hard drive. I had 
one on a Mac 128k! How it works is that it hooks up to a SmartPort disk 
drive port, like the disk drive port on a IIc or a IIgs. It also hooks up 
to an external drive port on a Mac (hence the Mac/Apple II switch).

You may think that's it, but your Apple II or Mac won't recognise the 
drive untill you tell it that it's there. To do that, you need to boot up 
your computer with the Quark software. Once you boot with the software, 
the computer recognises the Quark as a hard disk and continues that boot 
process from the hard disk. It gets a little tiresome booting that 
software time after time, but it works! Unfortunatly, I no longer have 
the Apple II software (I lost it some time ago). All I have is the Mac 
software. If anyone happens to have a copy of the old Quark software, 
please contact me... I want to try this thing with my IIgs, now that my 
Mac 128k/Mac 512Ke/Mac Plus is pretty useless now.

Just think- that Quark QC-10 hard disk cost just under $2000 when they 
were new!
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