the experiment

[a.rothamel]

Hi all!

I´ve just bought an apple ProFile external hard drive (5mb), just for curiosity. When you plug it, it turns on and averything seems to be working fine.

Anyway, this is not the point. The point is that I´m not the owner af an Apple ][, or even a Lisa. All I have is my old Classic running with System 6.0.3 (Finder 6.1), and I wandered if I could connect the ProFile to the Classic (more precisely, to the 25 pins SCSI port), without frying neither of them.

Having been assested on this "electrical" matter (plugging the two components without breaking them), I will check if the ProFile is compatible with the OS 6.0.3 (which surely won´t be).

Well... I just thought it would be worth giving it a try. But it´s just an experiment.

Thanx!

 

[Patrickool93]

I'm pretty sure the ProFile uses the floppy connector on older Apples, not a SCSI connector. Thats just what I think though...

 

[oldappleguy]

No you can't hook this up to a scsi port. It has a special interface.

It will only run on a lisa, apple 3, or an apple //. You need the correct

interface card for the system you are connecting to. One other thing,

when you turn it on the red light on the front should blink then stay on.

This is a rare piece. It would be a shame to burn it up.

 

[a.rothamel]

Thanks oldappleguy! That´s just the straight answer I was waiting for. The contents of the ProFile shall remain unknown, in darkness :-/