Re: was: Central Point software Board ??

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Bart wrote:

> Same here Wayne.  except I don't have a Laser Card but I tried it on a 128 and
> a 128ex, Liron UDC, a //c //c+ and several ][ clone controllers using a ribbon
> wire I have that is like unto the correct thing.  But not on a Superdisk card.
> I have one but in the event of disaster I was not willing to try.

Well it didn't hurt my superdrive card but then it didn't read the HD20 either.
Of course if it had then I don't know where it would have got me as SCSI
cards 
are a lot easier to come by than Superdrive cards. Still it would have
been 
useful data.

> I even once plugged a HD20 into a IIci and reformated it as ProDOS from there
> 1st just to see if in that format it could be read by the above.  No luck :(

I tried the same thing with no luck

>  Thing is, I took the lid off one HD20 and looked at the chipset per a earlier
> thread on this and a remark by David Empson and some remarks by David Wilson
> iirc...and...yes the chips looks the same as on  a UDC board or that section
> of a //c motherboard.
> 
> So, if the chips are the same, one would presume the traces are the same or
> similar. so...the only difference one would think...would be.....the firmware.
>  and therefore, if some feller was smart enough, slick enough and, bored
> enough to try:  It just seems to me that the ROM on this puppy could be
> reprogrammed to work on all the above.   I REALLY want a //c with a Harddrive
> on it... and these HD20s look so cool and Apple ;)
> -Bart

I'd like that too. Maybe one of the old Apple engineers will feel like doing
it as a home project after he retires.