Description: ProFile Hard Drive: Specifications (Discontinued)
Header: ProFile Hard Drive: Specifications (Discontinued)


 This article last reviewed: 10 May 1985

 Model A9M0005  5 Megabyte (Discontinued)
      A9M0100 10 Megabyte (Discontinued)

 I. Technical Specifications

     1. Data Storage Characteristics:

                                    A9M0100   A9M0005

        Data Capacity (formatted)
                     in megabytes:     10         5
                    Data Surfaces:      4         4
                Heads per Surface:      1         1
           Track Spacing per inch:    345       254
               Tracks per Surface:    306       152
                Sectors per Track:     16        16
              Sectors per Surface:   4896      2432
                       Block Size
                         in bytes:    512       512
         5.25" Floppy Equivalence:     70        35

     2. Drive Characteristics:

               Average Seek Time
                 in milliseconds:      85       180
              Data Transfer Rate
                 in megabits/sec:       5         5
        Rotational Start-up Time
                      in seconds:      20        20
          Drive Ready to Operate
                      in seconds:     120        60
                Rotational Speed
                  in RPMs +/- 1%:     3600      3600
       Mean Time Between Failure:
                        in hours:   10,000    10,000

          --Winchester technology

     3. Interface:

          a. Type:  8-bit parallel
          b. Connector:  DB-25
          c. Drives per Interface:  1

     4. Power Requirements:

          a. U.S.: 110 VAC, 35 Watts
          b. Europe: 230 VAC
          c. Drive power source internal to the ProFile.

     5. Environmental Requirements

          a. Temperature
               --Operating:  50 to 104 degrees F (10 to 40 degrees C)
               --Storage:  -7.6 to 176 degrees F (-22 to 80 degrees C)
          b. Humidity
               --Operating:  20 to 80% noncondensing.
               --Storage:  1 to 95%

     6. Physical Characteristics

                   inches   centimeters
          Height:   4.39       11.15
          Width:   17.28       43.89
          Depth:    8.81       22.38

                   pounds   kilograms
          Weight:  11           5

 II. Package

    With the 5 Megabyte or 10 Megabyte ProFile package:
       1. Apple ProFile hard-disk drive
       2. Apple ProFile Accessory Kit including:
            a. ProFile interface cable
            b. System-specific ProFile owner's manual
            c. Warranty and product registration
            d. User Input Report
       3. Included in the Apple II Accessory Kit:
            a. Catalyst II software
            b. Apple II SOS Driver and Utilities software
            c. Backup II software
            d. Apple II ProFile Interface Card
       4. Included in the Apple III Accessory Kit:
            a. Catalyst 2.0 software
            b. Pascal ProFile Manager software
            c. Backup III software
            d. Apple III ProFile Interface Card

 III. System Configuration

       --Either ProFile may be used the following Apple personal computers:

           1. IIe
                a. RAM: Minimum of 64 kilobytes
                b. Operating System: ProDOS Pascal 1.2
                c. Interface Cards:
                     -- The difference bewteen the 5Mb and 10Mb ProFile
                        Interface cards is the ROM at location C6.  The ROM is
                        341-027 for the 5Mb Card and 341-0299-B for the 10 Mb.

           2. Apple III

           3. Macintosh XL

 NOTE: The Macintosh XL containing a built-in 10-megabyte hard disk requires a
 Parallel Interface Card (Order A6BB101, obsolete).

 Features

 Controller automatically scans for error conditions, relocating marginal data
 blocks elsewhere on the hard disk, if necessary.
 Copyright 1988 Apple Computer, Inc.
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