12 Nov
2007
12 Nov
'07
5:41 a.m.
On Nov 11, 2007, at 2:08 PM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Those Apple // cards, are they the actual 100%
emulation of the //e or
//c under old PDS Macs? Was there a SCSI 5.25" drive for Macs that
would read the Apple // disks?
The Apple // cards (I think it was a //e) fit in the LC PDS (LC, LCII,
LCIII, not sure about the '040 LCs) and are a genuine Apple product
that was pretty much 100%. While most of the (usually schools) using
them would move their Apple // software to either 3.5" or hard disk, I
think that Apple made a Macintosh-compatible 5.25" floppy that would
read Apple // disks (I know they made an IBM 5.25"-compatible floppy
drive for Macintosh back in the late 1980s), but not many were sold.
Pretty well engineered device if you have a LC-series Mac.