Re: Format a Widget with an apple III

[macmoni]

Hi,
trying to clear the confusion with internal Widget drives and external 
Profiles:
The ProFile, at least the 5 MB version, was compatible with the Apple 
III.
Yes ! But also compatible with Apple Lisa
The only difference is the kind of formatting. That's all. (Same with 
10MB)
formatted by a Lisa, an Apple III can't use it. But, that seems 
suspicious.
Not at all !
I doubt that a Widget will be able to be formatted with an Apple III,
In fact. All the Profiles have been formatted with an Apple III and a 
special Board connected to the Apple III and connected to the 
apropriate external Drive.
Then you can use it with a Lisa.
I sold one of my Apple III half a year ago to a person, who only (or 
perhaps not only) uses the Apple III to format restored Drives for 
Lisa.
I'm not an expert. The Widget was made specifically for the Lisa line, 
and
isn't compatible with the III.
If you speak of the connections, you may be right. But there's not a 
lot of soldering and cabling work to do and your internal Lisa Widget 
Drive mutates to an external Profile for Lisa or Apple III
Does anyone have any idea how many working Lisa hard drives are still 
in
existence?
:-) And what will be the weather forecast for the next 4 months :-)
No, I think nobody can really count that. Not because of the high 
number of working drives, but because there is no registration on this 
planet, who counts every working drive. Or is there? I never heard 
of...
But, that would require knowledge of the Lisa OS.
Not so quite rare, as you perhaps might think !
I wonder if any of the members of the Lisa team would lend support to 
such a project?
Well Patrick Schaefer did that really without any help. He first tried 
to reengineer all the TTL Processes by reading out the hardware 
protocols, then he builts his own architecture which "only" converts 
the incoming requests and forwards those to an conventional SCSI HD and 
reverse, too

greetings TOM from Bavaria, the center of europe, the country with the 
marvellous castles of Koenig Ludwig and the original Octoberfest in 
munich...
... and last but not least the country of Pope Benedict

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