Re: Adapting Mac db-19 HDs for IIc

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

stephen e buggie <buggie@ben07.unm.edu> wrote:
: I've posted similar memos in the past... cannot recall the details of the
: replies.

The answer was and remains: these drives do not work for the same reason that
beige 800K floppies don't work, i.e. they weren't designed to work. Plus 
they are too scarce to justify making it possible for them to work if it could
be done. I read the Mac forsale groups regularly and I never see those drives
for sale. They would have enough mileage on them to make them somewhat less
than reliable as well, and replacement parts wouldn't be on every street 
corner.

If people want a //c hard disk badly enough, they should pester Sequential
to either start producing them again at a reasonable price, or sell the
design to someone else who will.
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