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What the heck is this hard drive???
fri0701:
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on April 05, 2023, 09:05:12 pm ---didn't the 10MB ProFile need the double-sized Z8 and ROM? I can't find a picture of a disassembled 10MB ProFile, but the 5MB ones we know were based on the ST-506 mechanism. Seagate's 10MB mechanism, the ST-412, has an identical chassis to the 506.
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This is the ROM in my prototype 10MB ProFile. The drive is an ST-412.
AlexTheCat123:
--- Quote ---If you get any more pictures, I'd say anything mentioning "Pepsi" would indicate a prototype. That, or a board number starting with "SK".
Either way, very cool! Make sure to get (and post) some more pictures, and dump the ROM if at all possible!
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Well that's really cool! I just emailed him back and asked for some more pictures, so hopefully we can get a view of this thing from some other angles and get a better idea of what it is exactly. And I'll definitely ask him about dumping the ROM too; I just don't want to overwhelm him with too much stuff at once since I already said so much in the email that I just sent him. Hopefully I can help him get it running at some point and archive the contents just in case there's anything interesting on there, given that it's probably a prototype and all. I'll keep everyone posted on the progress and upload the pictures as soon as I've got them!
ried:
I love that something like this is just now being discovered.
compu_85:
Wow he has an internal ProFile - neat! I don't think many of those were created.
ried:
I alerted John Woodall to this thread and he was kind enough to share these additional photos from his collection. Posted with permission:
He wrote: "I found two Lisa Pepsi internal drives in a computer shop in Santa Cruz. One was in a Lisa and the other was in the bottom half of a Profile case. They were made in Ireland. Or at least some of the boards were."
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