Re: Does Apple IIGS come with a harddisk?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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: "Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
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: >>     No, and there is no built-in expansion port or internal connector
to add
: >> a hardisk. Any mass storage device, including hardisks, required
plugging
: >> an optional slot based expansion card.
: >
: >Details, details... there are those rare and tempermental smartport hard
: >drives like the Pro-App/Chinook.
:
:     I thought about them as I wrote that post. The problem is they're so
: incredibly rare and hard to find, it's almost not a variable. You could
: also add a 5 or 10 megabyte ProFile hardisk to the IIgs, but I wasn't
: going to mention that either for obvious reasons. :)
:
:     Were the Pro-Apple and Chinook compatible with the IIgs Smartport
: and, in particular, GS/OS? Whether they are or aren't, I think it would
: be a waste on a IIgs when it's the _only_ hardisk option for the IIc.

It is the opnly option for the IIc right now, but I understand that
several people are working on other options for the IIc, and I was
but quit for a spell, but may resume that soon as well.  :o)

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