IIgs using hard disk 20

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Tue Oct 16 08:40:49 2001

> BUT... predating that was a "Macintosh Hard Disk 20" that was not scsi.
> Rather is was some drive (don't know what kind, but MFM seems sensible
> enough) that used a special adaptor board that enabled it to plug into
> the disk drive port on a bunch of the older macs. It was all enclosed
> (drive, power supply, adaptor board) in one nice zero footprint beige
> case (back when beige meant brown, and not grey like "beige" computers of
> today).

In spite of the now long-extant senility, I seem to recall that these
interfaces through the serial port, not the floppy port.

Regards,
-dq
Received on Tue Oct 16 2001 - 08:40:49 BST