Re: IIc hard drive hack?

[TWS <adoyson@nccn.net>]

Isn't the Laser a power-hog?  I got 4 of them for really cheap, and they all have
stickers that say "gets hot" or "do not place monitor on top if you don't want a
melt down"

Does anyone know where I can get a "CAP" that will cover an interface card
plugged into the expansion slot?

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Supertimer wrote:

> Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
>
> >Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >:>I'd say forget it.
> >
> >: I would not use a Focus card.  Rather, find a CT-20 SmartPort hard
> >: drive.  Assuming you use the "UniDisk" revision IIc, you should
> >: be able to mount the SmartPort to SCSI interface board in the IIc
> >: where the 5.25" drive is.  Then you can use an extra slim notebook
> >: 2.5" SCSI hard drive for storage.
> >
> >First problem: who would want to scrap a CT drive? They're pretty scarce.
> >You'd spend what a Powerbook 170 costs these days on one of those drives,
> >easily. Second, ever see inside one? The converter board is enormous. It'd
> >take power and the hard disk would take power too, all internally of course.
> >So scratch yet another unworkable idea.
>
> Then the best bet is to trade the IIc for a Laser 128EX/2.  This
> unit is better anyway, having an internal 3.5" drive, a clock/calender,
> MIDI, 1MB of memory expansion sockets for 41256 chips, parallel
> as well as serial, and a single expansion slot on the side.  It can
> easily accomodate a Focus card and there was a cap you could
> use to extend the casing of the unit so that the Focus card was
> enclosed.
>
> More importantly, the serial hardware does not suck like a IIc
> and go caput around 9600 (well below the ability of its serial chip).