16 Nov
1998
16 Nov
'98
9:22 p.m.
On 16 Nov 98 at 5:56, Eric Smith wrote:
The Apple ][ card for the Macintosh LC might be able
to connect to a
real Disk ][; I've never had an LC (with or without the Apple ][ card),
so I couldn't tell you.
I've never seen one of these in the UK but I understand that the LC
family card will take one of the 19 pin Apple 5.25" drives.
And as non-Apple floppy drives for the Mac go, there
was the DaynFile, which
was a nice two-drive box with a SCSI interface. It could be configured with
a mix of 360K, 1.2M, and 1.44M PC-format disks.
Ugh. These were incredibly expensive and each mechanism would
only read one particular disk format. I recall transferring data
from 360K floppy to 1.2M floppy on a PC before putting
it on the
Mac -- annoying for one disk but extremely tedious after a while. Like
all Dayna products, they never properly supported it and nowadays
deny all knowledge.
Phil
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