Re: Profile control card

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article misc176@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes...
>
>In article <9407052345.AA25958@apple.com>, RUDYARD@BRLNCC.BITNET writes:
>> 
>>      I have an old Profile drive with 5 mega of capacity and an Unidisk,
>> but I don't have a control card for the Profile. Can I use the  Unidisk
>> control card with the Profile ?
> 
>Nope, it can't. The old profiles plugged directly into an Apple ///, but to run
>them on a II you need a card called (suprise!) the Apple II controller. These
>are almost impossible to get!! You could scour the world and still not be able
>to lay your hands on one. (I have one but I'm not leeting go, sorry)

	Actually, the name stamped on the controller is "Apple II Interface".
Mine is Copyrighted 1983 and has an Apple part # '820-5006' for the card, and
a '341-0271-A' part # for the firmware ROM. I didn't know these cards were
rare, but unfortunately I have no ProFile HD to connect it to. :/ Note that
you need the ROM upgrade '341-0299-B' if you want to use a ProFile on a IIgs
running GS/OS. The upgrade was free from Apple dealers a couple of years back.

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>  From Philip Lamb (Internet: P.Lamb@CantvA.Canterbury.AC.NZ
>                          or: Misc176@CantvA.Canterbury.AC.NZ )
>  Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Mitchell Spector
sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca