"M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:BCA4855C.9F94%mpender@hotmail.com...
> On 4/15/04 11:30 AM, in article 107ts63q24e4td5@corp.supernews.com, "Liam
> Busey" <buseyl@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > The HD20 is a truly oddball obsolete Mac harddrive. Why anyone would
waste
> > their time interfacing this to an Apple 2 is beyond me. When there was a
> > market for Apple2 smartport harddrives such products existed. What
possessed
> > the Coco and CP/M communities to support this harddrive?
>
> I don't see the benefit of investing the time to do it, when a person can
> put pretty much every piece of Apple II software in existence on a 2GB
SCSI
> drive and use the drive with Apple's SCSI card, or a Ramfast SCSI card,
etc.
>
> 20 MB or 2 GB?  Easy choice.
>
> I suppose if someone just *had* to have a hard drive for their IIc they're
> stuck since the IIc doesn't take external cards...  But why adapt a Mac
> drive?  Isn't there some compatible Apple product?  A Sider maybe?
>

Hard disk solutions for the IIc included the following Smartport drives:

1.  Quark QC10 and QC20 Smartport drives
2.  Chinook Smartport-SCSI drive CT-40c and CT-100c
3.  Applied Ingenuity Innerdrive (replaces the internal 5-1/4 floppy).
4.  Alltech Electronics ProApp 40MB

I have a QC10 and it really works surprisingly well.  I actually have
another one which is I believe is OK although the drive itself is dying.
The drive itself is a Shugart 712 10MB 5-1/4" HHT MFM ST506 drive, and if
anyone has one please let me know.


Frank