New subject: Apple cable (was Re: Apple DuoDisk (was Re: Stacking Apple ][ stuff))

8 Dec 2001

--- SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
...
  In a message dated 11/8/2001 5:06:19 AM Central
Standard Time, 
 foo(a)siconic.com writes:
 I do remember reading something of a faulty/out of spec component
 inside the duodisk that would cause some issues with the floppy drives
 but like I said, coming up 404 on it. Think I'll ask in comp.sys.....
 and find out for sure.  
I'd like to hear more about this.  I always used individual drives
(typically SA400 mechs) when I did Apple development.  The IIe and
DuoDisk were too new and expensive for a low-budget shop like us
(but we did eventually support the //c _and_ the Apple mouse)

I have a DuoDisk but no cable.  What pins were used?  I think I _might_
have a cable that was sacrificed to the Amiga gods by having one of the
pins broken out of one end for use as a modem cable (since the Amiga puts
voltage on some of the pins).  It was a stupid thing to do, but it was
more than 10 years ago when Apple stuff was underappreciated.

Anyone have an Apple part number for a DuoDisk cable?  Will a 25-pin
straight-through work?

-ethan

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