Re: IIGS internal floppy, and other hacks

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Hellfire wrote:
> 
> Hello, I was thinking about the IIGS and superdrives, and I realized, a
> Powerbook drive is thin enough to fit inside a IIGS if the fower supply
> casing is modified and one capacitor is relocated inside, sort of a "Mark
> Twain" type mod. Has anyone else attempted/researched doing this? The floppy
> drive has a low-profile connector, but the connector could be de-soldered
> and hard-wired to a DB-19 port, and then attatched to the end of the
> daisy-chain, maybe even hardwired to the disk port from the IWM chip
> (Doesn't that stand for something? I think the W stands for Woz, he did
> design the Disk II controller and drive.). Also, if anyone has pinouts for
> the slots, especially the memory expansion slot, please post a copy. I am
> working on a hack for the 1MB memory card to turn it into a 4 or maybe 8 MB
> card, It's just a matter of figuring out the address lines and replacing
> some of the chips.
> 
>     -Regards, Matt

I don't know whether a powerbook floppy drive will work or not but if it 
does, it'd certainly need the daisy-chain board out of an external 3.5" drive.
Instead of modifying the power supply, why not replace it with an
external PC
power supply and then you have lots of room for maybe 2 floppy drives
and a 
hard drive. Your IIgs will also run a lot cooler.

IWM - Integrated Woz Machine

Woz designed the disk II controller but the drive he designed it for was
a 
Shugart drive

The FAQ has a pinout for the regular slots but I don't believe the
memory 
expansion slot.

	Wayne