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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hard Drives (was:Re: 3.5" drives for IIgs...)
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.043609.25818@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 90 04:36:09 GMT
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In article <10153@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>In article <1990Dec15.215548.5841@world.std.com> lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green) writes:
>>If it was only usable on a Mac I would have known that and not bought it for
>>my //GS.
>
>	But one of my points was: How can you have a hard drive that's
>only usable on a Mac? I gave a description of an internal hard drive that'd
>only work on an Apple II (without major major hacking and a different
>controller)...

You can have one which connects to the serial ports (at 1Mbit/second)--
I don't think the GS can handle that!  You can have one which connects to
the floppy port-- the GS has the IWM, but good luck on finding a driver.
You can have one that clips to the CPU. 

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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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