Date   : Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:36:27 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: OT Only Connect

2009/9/2 Rick Murray <rick@...>:

> Didn't the original Archie (A410?) harddisc expansion use a two-cable
> ST506 drive?

Correct, my ARM3-upgraded A440 has the original 57Mb disk, my other
one has a 20MB one.

> Somewhere I have a museum piece Apple 20Mb SCSI harddisc. Dead slow,
> dead noisy, and has a rotating dodah on the side (so I think you could
> manually alter the position of the heads by messing with this thing).

I've got a 20MB Apple SCSI drive in the kitchen, removed from the Mac
SE that's in there. It sticks so isn't really reliable. I put another
drive in the SE, pulled from a well-dead SE/30.

I've also got an Apple HD20 which connects via the floppy port and has
a drive which uses what seems to be a unique Apple interface -
although it's the same mechanism as the 20MB SCSI one. I tried to fix
the interface board because it had been intentionally damaged, I gave
up when I opened the drive up to find it full of water and rust!

-- 
Alex Taylor