27 Sep
2004
27 Sep
'04
8:10 a.m.
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Mike Ford wrote:
At 04:01 PM 9/23/04 -0400, Joe R. wrote:
So then where on the Apple ][ would you connect a 34-pin ribbon cable to?
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I found this this morning. Anybody know
anything about it? I found an
Apple Disk II external full height 5 1/4 disk drive in the same lot and
this is the same style, size and color so I'm guessing that it might be
made for use with an Apple II. However it does have one important
difference, it uses a 34 pin ribbon cable instead of the 20 pin like the
Apple drive does so it definitely uses a different interface.
Joe
Its a battery backed 400k ram that emulates a floppy drive (actually 2 x
160K). I bought mine new a few years ago, sigh ala 1970's, and it must have
been prior to the Sider hard drives otherwise why would I have bought it
(could be faster). It was really fast, but I don't recall any special card.