Re: Apple/IBM Trackstar knowledge??

[pausch@electra.saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <51po4l$2ob@europa.frii.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:
 
> In article <51kjaa$1mo@camel3.mindspring.com>,
> Jeff Vaughn <kilroy@bham.mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>> A hard drive on an old Apple? Is it possibile? I thought the Uni-Drive was
>>their greatest achievement (grin).
> 
> Yepper, I just made a deal to get an Apple II profile card. I have four
> profiles on hand, plus there are no apps on the III to maintain a hard disk,
> so I'll use a II to do that chore.
 
And before that we had the Corvus Constellation, which ran a 5 MByte HD on
good ol Apple DOS 3.3!  That HD was partitioned into 36 volumes of 140 kB
each, and you switched between them by giving the "Volume" different
values when accessing the drive.
 
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