Clipper HD

[bibilit]

Never seen one of those, or heard about it...anyone of you is using one ?

 

[markyb86]

is that an infra-red receiver on it?

 

[uniserver]

i like it!

 

[uniserver]

i saw on ebay earlier this year something like this….

It was a HDI 30, 2.5" external scsi hard drive, it had a right angle on it and plugged directly into and stood vertical from the back of the HDI port

Just like what you have here. IT WAS COOL!

I think it sold for 35 bucks.

I didn't want to bid much more then that.

but i am now wishing that i bought it.

 

[Blinkenlightz]

It looks like one of those early "portable" LaCie drives that the advertised as being small enough to fit in a shirt pocket (they stretched the truth a tad). I've never seen the Clipper name though!

 

[markyb86]

If you wear a pair of Jnco jeans you could pretty much fit any external hard drive in the back pockets, maybe even a portrait display...

I would have never guessed that was a Hard drive, thats teriffic! It's so little!

 

[CelGen]

I know someone with one. I borrowed it once so I could format a hard drive in a Thinkpad 850.

Seeing how the 2.5" SCSI drives are getting close to unobtanium they aren't really worth owning unless you shim in an SSD which then suddenly makes them extremely useful.

 

[genie_mac]

Looks similar to this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Apple-II-2-5-SCSI-Hard-Drive-External-Storage-Case-w-AC-DC-Power-Adapter-/271270287492?pt=US_Drive_Enclosures_Docks&hash=item3f28f81884

 

[uniserver]

Wow I just bought one. Thanks for the link

 

[LCGuy]

I have one I bought on eBay a couple of years ago. Pretty neat, apart from the fact that I don't have any spare 2.5" SCSI drives.

 

[CelGen]

Looks similar to this.-link-

That's because it is. Right through until the late 90's the Apple market was FLOODED with OEM crap that was nearly identical. There might be a different color plastic or there might be an extra badge but otherwise a lot of the time it was all the same hardware (HDD enclosures with Conner or Quantum drives or pretty much selling the Sony SMO-E501 in a different enclosure.

Sometimes I wonder how the hell the benchmarks were so different when they were in fact comparing identical hardware.

 

[bibilit]

The Clipper one doesn't need any external power adapter

 

[uniserver]

yes but i see the clipper has the power plug spot just like the one in the ebay ad,

maybe apple II needs the external power adaptor, and the mac provides enough.

 

[LCGuy]

Mine's a generic one and it needs a power adapter (5VDC) to run it.

 

[genie_mac]

Wow I just bought one. Thanks for the link

Let me know how it works out Uniserver. Was thinking of getting one for my Plus before I have a go at the internal SCSI mod.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Nice! If my Duo MiniDock had a DB-25 connector on it I'd be really jealous, uni.

 

[CelGen]

The Clipper one doesn't need any external power adapter

Macs do not send power down the SCSI bus and the spec. does not support it. It needs an external power supply.

 

[Paralel]

Do you think it is self-terminating, or it would need a terminator stuck to it? I wonder what the circular thing up in the corner of the Clipper drive is?

I have a spare Powerbook drive, so I bought one. Hopefully it will work with just the HD-20 init with my Plus. I'll let you all know how it goes.

 

[CelGen]

Do you think it is self-terminating, or it would need a terminator stuck to it?

I wouldn't even bother with terminating the drive. When attached to a compact mac you have less than three inches of actual cable length between the controller and the drive.