Re: IIc hard drive hack?

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

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.
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