Re: Profile hard drive

[cshank@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca]

On 11 Nov 1996, Nathan Mates wrote:

> In article <564nkm$6sf@nnrp2.farm.idt.net>,
> Ralph E. Dodd  <redodd@styx.ios.com> wrote:
> >The faq didn't have any info on a Profile hard drive. Does anyone know where
> >to find any info on these drives. TIA.
> 
>    Ancient, slow, and small (5 and 10MB varieties only), connected to
> an Apple II by a special bidirectional parallel card, the Profile
> controller card. Can only be reformatted on an Apple III due to Apple's
> putting in special circuitry to do that.

Speaking of which, I have two special formatting chips (and
instructions) for low-level formatting 5 meg. Profile hard disks on an
Apple ///. Anyone interested in these? I suppose I'd sell them each for
$10 US plus P&H.

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