Re: IIc hard drive hack?

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Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>TWS wrote:
>
>: My idea is that you may be able to solder
>: some wires to the Focus Card connectors, and
>: then attach them to the Motherboard. Maybe
>: the use of one of the ports would have to be
>: compromised? Use the signals that go to SLOT
>: 1 (serial) to run the Focus card.
>
>: Any thoughts?
>
>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.