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Re: -Hard-Drives w/vulcan?



Bill Garber wrote:
"brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net> wrote in message

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i have another wierd guestion....i have that proslot card which allows you
in slot 7 to put 2 cards sideways into it...the cards tuck under the lip
of the apple // right side facing down..<snip>

could ....using such a card ..could you actually use such a beast
(concievably) to put say 2 cffa cards or some such silly ness in the same
slot? or is this limited to printer cards....or something slow...anyway on
this dapple setup looks like both cards are being used somehow at same time

I'd say you could use any 2 cards as long as they aren't
power hungry. It does switch from one to the other, right?

I'd expect the problem to be what "slot 7, drive 1" means.

The last thing you want is "transparent" switching between
hard disks in the same slot.  If switching is manual, then
the disks could not be used together--not particularly
useful.

The slot architecture on the Apple II is more than an electrical
connection.  Adding additional slots *that work like real slots*
cannot be accomodated by the architecture.  Of course, if all
you want to do is tap power, you don't really need a slot!

-michael

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