Re: //c harddrive on Ebay

[bob@bob.us]

>   From: Christopher Ryan <nogard@cishollywood.com>

>Im the one who bought it...seemed like a deal.  I have a few //cs..I
>try em out on all of them and let you know just for future information.

here is part of an article from an old genielamp - april 94 by weyrich:

ProApp   Alltech Electronics still sells some older
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''   hard drives for the Apple IIc that carry the
ProApp name.  These are 40 meg drives, and require UniDisk 3.5-capable
Apple IIc's.  However, they use a protocol called "RLL", which is different
from the more common IDE and SCSI types of hard drives.  As with the
Sequential drives, the ProApp drives come with partitioning software, and
are divided into two 20-meg partitions.


Quark   One other hard drive for the Apple IIc may be found on the used
'''''   market:  the Quark QC-10.  This is a 10-meg hard drive that was
released soon after the IIc came on the market in 1984, and was unique in
that it managed to function on the ORIGINAL Apple IIc disk port (recall
that this was designed to work ONLY with a single external 5.25 drives).
Because of that design, a QC-10 possibly may NOT work with a IIc that has
been upgraded to use the UniDisk 3.5 or memory expansion; however, if the
drive itself is still functioning, it may be possible for an enterprising
hacker to make the modifications to allow it to work.  (I do not have
specifications about what type of hard drive this was, nor how they made it
work on the old IIc disk port, and cannot be certain about whether it can
be used "as is", or would require modifications.)