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Re: IWM and un-suitable drives for Macs



In article <39DF7690.8AD9507C@inetnebr.com>,
Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
}"Matthew T. Russotto" wrote:
}
}> It ain't what you don't know that gets you, it's what you do know that
}> ain't so.  The original Mac II used the original IWM.  The Mac IIx and
}> subsequent machines used the SWIM (Sanders-Wozniak Integrated Machine,
}> or sometimes Super Wozniak Integrated Machine).  They are pin
}> compatible.
}
}So, if I could find a SWIM, I could put that on a //GS motherboard and then be
}able to access 1.4 drives??????

No, there'd also be the matter of driver software.  Possibly also timing;
would the GS be able to get the bits to the drive fast enough?
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."