Re: Central Point software Board ??

[you@somehost.somedomain (Bart)]

>If it's got a 1986 date on it, then you're right except that it's the 
>earlier full sized Universal Disk Controller(UDC) card. 36 chips plus 
>assorted resistors and diodes. 

Wayne....Full Size?  Would this be a different name branded version of the 
fabled:  "Long Liron" card?  The one that, due to a oops in its  
implementation  of Smartport, would (or so the myth is spoken  in whispers in 
the shadowed corners of computer rooms across the land): actually WORK with an 
HD20 drive in a Apple II? 

For those who just came in, I have been bugging folks about getting the floppy 
port Mac HD20 (early, worked with any beast through the Mac II series, 20 
megs, has the same chips on its internal card as can be found on a Liron card, 
etc) drive to somehow be functional on a Apple II.

  I just KNOW there has got to be a way.  
Why the interest? Well the shelf over there has 8 of the beggers on it!  HD20s 
are somewhat rare (to folks who are not uber-scroungers like me), but not as 
rare as say SCSI cards.  If there was a way to somehow work the HD20 into a 
useable ProDOS drive, then, the possibility also presents of getting a useable 
hard drive for our //c using brethren on the cheap.  And THAT boys and girls  
is my ultimate goal!
I don't have the knowledge of firmware to tinker with this, but I am convinced 
that:  a firmware change, resister snip, slight voltage tweak on a data line, 
or the like is the magic that will result in this idea working.  

Heck whadda I know?  just a idea....

-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck