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From: mead@hamal.usc.edu (Dick Mead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: SCSI drives.
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 21:11:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 21:11:25 1987
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Keywords: hard disk, scsi

For those who don't know about it, there is a small company, with a tiny
little ad in the back of A+ mag. that makes a SCSI controller for the
Apple II/II+/IIe/GS. The product is MEGABOARD, from Perlin Electronics
in Goleta, CA (805) 968-6089.
 This card fits in any slot 1-7, but works as if in 7. It will use nearly
any ST506 type hard disk of 64Meg or less..1024 cyl max/8 heads max
It formats 16 sectors at 256 bytes/sect..
Comes with software to format and config for DOS3.3, Apple Pascal, CP/M, PRODOS
and the only "MUST HAVE" is one volume of DOS3.3 for all the utilities.
Currently works with Pascal 1.1 and Prodos 1.1.1 or less, and CP/M 54k ..
I have not been able to make it work with 44k CP/M or 60k CP/M 2.23, and
it won't boot PRODOS 1.2 or higher yet. Oh yes, the price is $195.00 plus
shipping and tax...The card runs pretty warm, and due to it's power requirements,
has a pig-tail lead from the disk connector end for external +5, which you
steal from the disk power supply. You can configure the disk to boot up in any
of the installed systems.
This might be worth checking out for those folks looking for a hard disk
controller for the Apple.

Dick