Re: IIe, IIgs, Mac LC-II hardware compatibility questions.

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote
>
> The UniDisk 3.5 is a "smart" drive.  Its interface board is actually a
> small microcomputer, containing a 65C02 processor, RAM, ROM and an IWM
> chip (the same disk controller used in the IIc, IIgs and early Mac
> models).  The UniDisk 3.5 communicates with the host computer using a
> packetised protocol called SmartPort: data is transferred between the
> host computer and memory within the drive's computer, and is then
> written to the disk (or vice versa for read).  This extra step (and the
> slower transfer rate) makes the UniDisk 3.5 slower than the other
> drives.
>

This is interesting, seems like it could be adapted for use with an external
hard disk for the IIc.  Any speculation on that?
-Paul