Mass storage options on the 128k?

[Peter.Howard]

Ok I have been trying to research this,

from what I can gather, the HD20 will not work on a stock, standard 128k mac?

From what I have managed to find googling online, the Tecmar 10mb drive would,

the profile hard drive was never used on the 128k? or the 512k for that matter

Has anyone done a CF type card project for the 128k?

What other external hard drive options existed for the 128k, in standard 64k ROM form?

thanks

 

[Dog Cow]

from what I can gather, the HD20 will not work on a stock, standard 128k mac?

I can't find any contradicting evidence.
The minimum requirements seem to be 64k ROMs and 512KB of RAM, but 128k ROMs are better.

the profile hard drive was never used on the 128k? or the 512k for that matter

Correct. It required a disk controller card.

Has anyone done a CF type card project for the 128k?

I don't believe so.

What other external hard drive options existed for the 128k, in standard 64k ROM form?

This is just a list of drives that I found; you will have to research them further yourself:

ProApp20 Hard drive

Tecmar 10mb Hard Drive

Hyperdrive 2000 info from GCC

MacBottom -- very short review

Hyperdrive

SCSI HD20 Rumor

Paradise MAC-10

The new Apple Hard Disc - from 1985, an interesting read today

Hope this helps answer your questions.

 

[Peter.Howard]

Thanks for the links, given me heaps to read up on.

As our old floppies and hard drives die, we need something ike the X/Profile

http://sigmasevensystems.com/xprofile.html

what I would love is a kit that you use to pull apart an old 400kb drive, and mount a cf card reader or small hd inside,

sure the early MFS system can only read, 20 or is it 40mb of storage, but it would still be great way to keep software preserved.

 

[Mac128]

Sigh ...

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[Dog Cow]

MacServe, eh? I passed over an article on it which came up while I was searching earlier today. I'll post it now:

Re: MacServe Info Wanted

 

[napabar]

from what I can gather, the HD20 will not work on a stock, standard 128k mac?

I can't find any contradicting evidence.
The minimum requirements seem to be 64k ROMs and 512KB of RAM, but 128k ROMs are better.

I had a Mac 128Ke (128K ROM) back in the 90's, and it worked fine with the HD20.

I would say the minimum requirements to use the HD20 natively is simply the 128K ROM.

If you have the 64K ROM, then you need to use the HD20 INIT, which requires 512K of RAM to load.

Hope that clarifies things.