Re: Apple IIc Booting from external drive

[bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)]

In article <ddkilzer.739384892@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu> ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer) writes:

>Yes, that's one of the better reasons to do it.  Of course, if you're
>REALLY ambitious (and don't mind voiding the warranty on your computer
>and disk drive--that is, if there's still one in effect), you can remove

This concern always amused me. Since the //c was discontinued over four
years ago I think most peoples 90 day warranty has pretty much run out.

>the cover from the //c and from the external disk drive (as long as it's
>an Apple External Disk Drive //c), and "swap" the drives.  I don't
>recall if you could put the //c case back on or not.  I seem to recall
>that the keyboard needed a small notch in the side of the disk drive
>housing for the //c to go back to gether again, but you can certainly
>switch them while doing some troubleshooting.

There's no reason to try and 'cram' the drive into the case. Just plug it into
the internal drives connection. 

Bob Church