22 Sep
2003
22 Sep
'03
12:31 p.m.
ISTR that the Apple drive is a DSDD mechanism, and that GCR encoding is
used, not a standard FM/MFM. So you need the Apple drive no matter how
you slice it. And you need another disk controller card to match it.
I have a fist full of salvaged 3.5 drives, unknown condition that I know
should work on my IIc+ or a IIgs, but I don't know of any other use for
them. Maybe the IIe could only use the Unidrive 3.5.
Help me out there, apple nuts . . . .
Gary Hildebrand
St. JOseph, MO
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me the besat place to get info on the 3.5 inch FDD
for the Apple IIe?? Is it possibl;e to modify a standard IBM 3.5 inch FDD
to
work with the apple?? Yes, I understand it would be a serious
modification.
Has anyonme heard of it being done?? I understand the Apple II uses a
special drive interface, can this be conected up to the 3.5 inch drive
hardware and be used to drive them?? It's just so much easier to obtain
3.5
inch disks nowdays that a bit of fiddling around seems worth it.
Hope to hear from you all soon
Peter T.