Re: Why Apple II?

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

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

: I have nine IIc's.   How I _wish_ that someone could write software or a
: ROM so that the  external Mac serial-port SC20 hard drive could be used
: with the IIC!   These SC20 units are dirt cheap now that no one in the Mac
: world would ever use them again.   But just fantasize what a 20 meg hard
: drive would do for the IIc we have!

Hmm the only one of these I've seen for sale for quite a while has a $200
asking price. These aren't plentiful enough to be worth while to adapt for
Apple II use even if it were feasible. Mine will remain attached to my Mac
512E.

: I know there is a technical complication against the IIc using this drive.
: But if the drive did all its communication throught a serial port, can't
: it be modified to run with a IIc????

I'm still trying to figure out why people call these serial port drives
when they connect to the floppy port.
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