Re: Using Mac 20 meg HD on A2 drive port???

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stephen e buggie wrote:
> 
> Some of the older Macintoshes have an external hard drive that connects
> via the db-19 external drive port.  These units are for sale CHEAPLY on
> the Mac marketplace network.
> 
> I've heard that these units wont work on Apple II, but WHY NOT?
> 
> Could a creative programmer write ROM code so that it could be used as an
> external hard drive for IIc, similar to the Chinook external hard drive
> for IIc?  The IIc upgrade ROM allows the IIc to use an 800K external
> floppy, so could a ROM be created to allow use of the Mac 20 meg external
> hard drive?  (Note: the db-19 hard drive is NOT scsi.)
> 
> Think of how many thousands of IIc users would love to use these external
> hard drives!!!
> 
> Steve Buggie

But it does work, but only with slotted II's.  :)

I've seen an Apple IIe with an older version of the Universal
Disk Controller run such a drive.

-Scott G.