Re: Apple IIc Hard Drive??

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

stephen e buggie (buggie@auriga.unm.edu) wrote:

: The early Macs had a 20 meg external hard drive that was fed VIA A db-19
: DISK DRIVE PORT.

: There are sone firmware geniuses out there.   Couldn't SOME ONE write an
: EPROM that would enable the IIC to use this 20 meg Macintosh hard drive???
: The 29 megger is very cheaply priced because Mac users dont use them any
: more, yet it would be a lifesaver for us IIC users!

On the infrequent occasions when I see these offered for sale, it's usually
for a collector's price on the auction sites. These are neither cheap nor
plentiful. I wonder which is more scarce, the HD20 or a Chinook //c drive.
I happen to have one of each on hand.

: Heck, you could even sell the eprom chip and many out here would gladly
: buy!

You wouldn't find enough HD20s to justify doing it even if it could be done.
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