Re: Homemade Superdrive?

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

Dan Ratliff <danr@macfora.com> wrote in message
c0590edb.0303100349.62b4c05b@posting.google.com">news:c0590edb.0303100349.62b4c05b@posting.google.com...
> How hard would it be to cobble up a controller?  Some of these old
> Macs can be had for little or nothing.  It's probably not something
> I'd be capable of without a lot of guidance...
>
> From a website I found:
> "SWIM ('Steve Woz Integrated Machine') is the floppy controller used
> in all Mac II (except for the original Macintosh II, which came with
> the older IWM). As the name implies, it sends data and control signals
> to the diskdrive. In contrast to IWM, SWIM supports the MFM-format,
> making the SuperDrive (aka FDHD, with 1.44MB/ disk) usable (of course,
> SWIM is still GCR-format capable, in order to read the older 400/ 800K
> disks)"
>
>    Dan

Not to mention that it will format ProDOS to 1.44 mb.
That's the part I love.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com



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