Re: Why Apple II?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
: 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.

So in other words, what we need to do is figure out some way to make the
drive look like a UniDisk 3.5 so that the SmartPort firmware in the //c
could talk to it...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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