Apple 2 GS cartridge drive (was: re: dec 3100 100mb scsi)

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Thu Dec 17 18:48:41 1998

The Apple 2 GS could have a hard drive in it? I never knew that. My school
used to have about 10 of them, and they all ran off of quad-floppy drives,
and some sort of cartridge drive that was used to transfer files to a PC
(You would just pull the cartridge from the Apple, bit it in the drive
connected to the IBM, and run whatever you wanted. I can't remember much
about it (about 6 yrs ago). Does anyone have any info on a drive like this?
It was a black drive that was about the size of a Disk ][, had about a 3/4"
cable running to the back of the computer, and a grounded power cord. The
drive itself weighed about 5-10 lbs, and the cartridge weighed about 2 lbs
(it was metal).

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 1:20 PM
Subject: dec 3100 100mb scsi
>Hey gang.  Thought you would want to know that Alltronics has 5 dec 3100
>100mb 3.5 inch half height drives for sale for 24.95 each.  They had 7, but
>I just bought 2.  One for a Mac SE30, one which will wind up either in the
>vaxstation Tim Shoppa is putting together for me, or in my Apple 2 GS,
which
>in turn will donate its disk to the aforementioned vax.  (the GS's disk is
>230 megs. Far more than is really useful for it.)
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>Jim Strickland
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