Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!HyperMail.apple.com!jeffh From: jeffh@HyperMail.apple.com (Jeff Holcomb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: PCT misinformation Message-ID: <11944@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 1 Feb 91 18:08:15 GMT References: <7467609@ub.cc.umich.edu> Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 31 In article <7467609@ub.cc.umich.edu> Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU writes: > Okay, I'm going to try to clear up some misinformation about the > PC Transporter that has been published lately. Funny, because > some of the info. has come from people who claim to know from > working for AE. There is no SWIM chip on the PCT. SWIM is a chip > designed and owned by Apple. It was created for some of the > Macintosh models years after the PCT was designed by Little Blue > company. Todd, who do you think created the SWIM chip? The letters SWIM stand for Sanders-Wozniak Integrated Machine. Wendell Sanders took the IWM and made the modifications to add the extra features. After that, he left Apple and started his own company, The Engineering Department, who designed the PCT. The chip on the PCT in question is the only one on the board that has an Apple Copyright. Apparently, Apple licensed the technology to TED who in turn used it on the PCT. There is a difference between the SWIM on the Mac and the PCT, the PCT's can't r/w 1.44 Meg disks (I think). It is possible that the technology is in the PCT's drive chip, but I don't remember anyone at AE ever investigating whether it would work with 1.44 Meg disks or not. :-) ___________________________________________________________________________ Jeff Holcomb Internet: jeffh@HyperMail.apple.com AppleLink: jeffh@HyperMail.apple.com@INTERNET# GEnie: A2.JEFFH Contracting for Apple ATG Voice: (408) 974-0841 My opinions are not necessarily those of Apple. :-P ___________________________________________________________________________