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Re: IIGS storage
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In article <1156307127.992852.45050@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
Miles Attacca <milesattacca@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm looking for a cheap way to come into a IIGS-compatible hard drive.
>There's a 350MB internal hard drive on eBay for $150, which is about
>$140 more than I can ideally afford at the moment (I believe in the
>concept of "free as in beer"), but I can't find much evidence of
>external drives or anything cheap at all.
Holy crap...is this still 2006, or did we get thrown back in time to 1996?
Searching eBay for "SCSI case" comes back with plenty of cheap options, such
as this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290020144249
I was only looking for empty enclosures into which a drive can be installed,
but since there's already a 1.0-GB drive in this one...
The trick will be acquiring a SCSI card at a reasonable cost. These prices
don't look too bad:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=apple+ii+scsi
Sometimes prices balloon beyond all reason, but every once in a while,
you'll get lucky.
>Does anyone have recommendations for where/from whom to buy a decent HD, or
>if there are other, more readily-available HDs that are compatible with the
>IIGS? It gets boring when all you can do is have the computer shout "Apple
>II!" after all. :)
The somewhat-hard bit to acquire is a SCSI card (an Apple DMA SCSI card or a
RamFAST would be preferred, but an Apple rev. C SCSI card will get the job
done). Once you have that, pretty much any SCSI hard drive (mounted in an
enclosure with a power supply) will work. My IIGS has a 4.3-GB Seagate
Barracuda on it. Those were expensive server-grade drives 10 years ago, but
they're cheaper than dirt now.
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