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Re: Mac HD for AppleIIC?



"Willi Kusche" <willi@wilserv.com> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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> > "Igor" <ikanja@yahoo.it> wrote in message
> > news:sC9oa.50954$DT4.1481189@twister1.libero.it...
> > > Hello, I've found an old external hard disk for the Mac. It's 20MB and
> > > it's not scsi. It seems that has to be connected to the disk drive
> > > connector of a mac.>
> > No.    Maybe if someone re-wrote the firmware in the drive it would
work,
> > but as-is it won't. We sure wish it would, though. Those drives are a
lot
> > more common than the ones that do work with the IIc, and we have
discussed
> > this possibility at length.
>
>     Where can I find this discussion?
>
>     If the drive looks like a floppy disk drive to a Mac SE then
> examination of the support code in the Mac SE ROMs might reveal how to
> create 6502 code that would allow use of the drive with the Apple II
> line.
>

Hi Willi,
try using Google to search the CSA2 archive, what used to be Deja News.
Search for the official name of that type of drive, which I can't remember
at the moment- HD20 or something.
-Paul