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Re: Maxed out Apple II computers



PZ wrote:
Sequential, and before that Chinook, both had Smartport interfaced hard
drives for the IIc.  Applied Ingenuity actually made an internal drive
that replaced the floppy mechanism, but only a handful got out.  The
Sequential and Chinook units functioned well, but were limited by the
speed of the Smartport.
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What would be really bitchin' would be to hardwire a CFFA into a IIc+.

Paul:

I was a ware of only the Chinook drive, and I've certainly never seen one except in old pictures. I did not know there were three available at one time or another.

Maybe we can do that at kfest, if you have a spare CFFA and an eprom in your IIc+ along with access to a burner.

Hmmm...
Wasn't someone working on such a hack already?

Thinking aloud:
- What are in the slots of a IIc+?
- Anyone got a schematic or block diagram of the slotmaker chip. (I am assuming it has a slot maker chip.) - I'd want to place the CFFA rom in the c600 region so the IIc+ would automatically downshift... - I'd want a switch to allow use of the smartport 5.25 but I could live without it. - Anyone got a disassembly of the smartport routines in ROM? What chip is the Cx00 region in?

Thankx,
Ed