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From: chiu@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (James Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HD controller and step/trace on //e
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Date: 27 May 91 03:27:27 GMT
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In article <16552@helios.TAMU.EDU> mcl9337@aim1.tamu.edu (MARK CHRISTOPHER LOWE) writes:
>I have a spare Seagate ST-251 42 Meg drive and an old //e I've been using
>forever WITHOUT a hard drive.  Where might I obtain a controller to run
>such a beast?  I will build the power supply myself.

There is this company called "DMA Technology" that manufactures ST415/ST506
Host Adaptor (MegaBoard Hard Disk Controller) for Apple II series. 
This information however is about two years old (the last time I pickup a
copy of incider) and I don't have the slightest idea if these people are
still in business... (And no, I am not affilated with them in ANY ways)

MegaBoard Hard Disk Controller $195.96
DMA Technology Inc.
601 Pine Ave., Goleta, CA 93117
805-964-0733

Either that, or you can pickup a SCSI host adaptor and a SCSI controller
(Adaptec 4000A/4070 or even Adaptec 5000 serie) and hack a drive.
Adaptec controllers are been sold for about $70 a piece or so, available 
from either TimeLine Inc (No, don't have their address handy) or Weird 
Stuff (formally Computer Surplus). SCSI host adaptor can be purchased
from most mail order house (Most popular ones these days seem to be
RAM FAST and Apple DMA SCSI)
(READS: Alot of work, and final cost may exceed cost of MegaBoard thing)

>Also, are there any public-domain debuggers for the //e that provide the 
>sadly missing step and trace functions in the monitor?
>
>Don't get me wrong... I don't do any SERIOUS programming on this //e.  It DOES
>do several workhorse and slave jobs well, though!  :-)
>
>Please respond to the net, as this system is fixing to be canned.
>
>Many thanks...
>
>Mark C. "Bro!" Lowe - KB5III