Subject: Re: Macintosh 5 1/4" drive wanted
From: david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)
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Date: 19 Aug 99 01:02:48 GMT
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Alan Tuttle <news001@macgeek.org> writes:
>Wouldn't it be cool if some hardware hacker actually put together an
>adapter/driver package that'll let you attach the Apple 5.25 drive to a
>Macintosh with a drive port?

If I were going to do such a thing I would make a little single board computer
with:

	65c02
	RAM
	EPROM
	IWM or emulation
	SCSI chip
	power supply

The program in the EPROM would make the board look like a target drive and
convert SCSI block read/writes into pairs of sector read/writes to the
Disk ][ drive. By making it a SCSI device it would work on a PC as well.
If an IWM was used rather than just the logic on a Disk ][ controller, a PC
could have a UniDisk 3.5 plugged into it (or if the 65c02 was faster than 1MHz,
even an Apple 3.5 drive).

What would people pay for such a device?
--
David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia