Re: Options for IIc hard drive

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <21156-3A2A21A7-1@storefull-153.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
 <Seedbat@webtv.net> wrote:

>I read on the Apple II History page that there was a 10 MB hard drive
>made to work with the IIc through the disk port--the Winchester. Do any
>of you know anything about it? Were there other hard drives made for the
>IIc with more storage capacity?

I have a Chinook CT-20c hard disk dating from '89. It's a 20 megger which
works on the floppy port of a IIgs or //c and with a Unidisk card in a //e.
It uses a SCSI hard disk so in theory, you could swap in bigger drives.

>Assuming by some miracle I found one, would I be able to daisy chain my
>2 UniDisk 3.5s and IIc external 5.25 with it?

The Chinook does that quite well. I got it to use with my //e as a matter
of fact, since there was a Unidisk card in there but no slot left over for
a SCSI card. I connected one Unidisk 3.5 to it, and discovered that ProDOS
8 2.0 could access a second Unidisk on there via slot 4. That's cool. And
of course, any 5.25s connected to one on a //c would work, but not on a
//e like I use.

I doubt these are plentiful and would take some doing to find. I paid >$600
in '89 dollars for one. Considering how you can find //c's in dumpsters now,
and how the PM8500/180 on my desk now cost less secondhand than that 20
mb drive cost new (or would cost on the collector market now), it isn't
really cost effective to get one.
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