Re: Old non-SCSI Mac hard drive on IIc?

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960710160259.27403C-100000@moose>,
Paul Schultz  <pschultz@med.wayne.edu> wrote:
>Can the old Mac external hard drive which plugged into
>the pre-SCSI Mac disk port work on a IIc? Does the Mac
>use the same "SmartPort" commands?

   I believe the first Mac HDs used a parallel port for 2-way
communications (like the ProFile, and most external PC drives... how
the computer world changes so much and never changes), so those didn't
support SmartPort stuff.

Nathan Mates

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