Re: MouseDesk

[Lockar <lockar@nospam.com>]

  Okay, I am little confused here...

     The //c+ can be set to run at 1mhz so can the //gs so I don't
understand how the speed of the CPU has to do with it (I know, I am
dumb! LOL).  

   But you are right, there was a firmware update to the orginal //c
when the UniDisk 3.5 was put out.

       -Lockar

   Just a side note, the //c+ is able to boot from Slot 5, Drive 2. 
Mine just scans every drive it's connected to see what is bootable,
where the //gs doesn't even look at Drive two...


In article <y8zjb.3803$BS6.1165@edtnps84>, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote:

> Bill Garber wrote:
> > "Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
> > news:QZKib.17603$Pe5.15642@edtnps84...
> 
> >>The IIc+ uses the IWM.
> > 
> > 
> > If this is the case, then it may be possible to make
> > the IIc use a regular Apple 3.5" disk drive. Do you know
> > if the difference is simply firmware?
> 
> I don't believe it can be done. As I recall when Apple decided
> to produce A IIc with a 3.5" drive they first had to add some
> hardware to let the IIc work with a regular 3.5" drive because
> the 1mhz processor couldn't keep up. I believe the engineers
> spent a fair bit of time developing that and right after solving
> it somebody decided to up the speed. At 4 mhz there wouldn't have
> been any trouble getting a IIc to use a regular 3.5" drive. I also
> recall that rather than scrap it and start over they were supposed
> to have left the modifications they made to let a 1mhz IIc+ use
> regular 3.5" drives in the production boards. You could likely test
> that by changing the oscillator so the IIc+ can't run any faster
> than 1mhz.
> 
> Wayne
>