Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!mit-amt!adam From: adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: External FDHD? Message-ID: <453@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 Aug 89 16:51:42 GMT References: <2276@sol.oakhill.UUCP> <474@gistdev.UUCP> <475@gistdev.UUCP> Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 19 In article <475@gistdev.UUCP>, joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee) writes: > It seems to me like Apple would have announced an external FDHD not long > after its introduction. Instead, here we are a year later and I haven't > read a thing about any such plans. The problem with the FDHD is that it requires the Super Integrated Woz Machine Chip (SWIM). This replaces the IWM (SWIM-Super) chip on the mother- board. So, as far as I know, there are no plans/possibilities to override the SWIM chip (from without) and make an external FDHD. Sorry... Adam =============================================================================== || Adam Glass, NeXT hacker for the slave-drivers at the MIT Media Laboratory || || #include || || %% "But Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.es?" %% || || %% "Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist..." %% || || EMail to: adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu OR adamg@athena.mit.edu || ===============================================================================