On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> Just from looking at the one in the Profile, and not having
> another 506 to directly compare it to, it looks like the Apple board
> is being used in place of whatever circuit card it would normally
> have. In fact, the interface to the drive is a single ribbon cable
> coming in from the side vice the dual data/control cables normally
> associated with the 506-type drives.
Jeff, you are correct. For whatever reason that Apple had a habit of, the
normal board was replaced by a custom Apple board. I doubt you could drop
in a non-Apple replacement drive and have it work.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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