Re: Apple Disk Drive - Hardware Mod Question

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Thelbane wrote:

> Has anyone modified an internal or external Apple II drive so that it can
> write to write-protected disks?  If anyone has done this or knows how to do
> it, I'd appreciate your help before taking a crack at it myself.
>
> "Why the hell would you want to do that?  Just use a hole-puncher on the
> disk!" you say...

Just bypass the write protect switch. In a Disk II, switch open is write
protected
and of course closed is write-enabled. If you wired in a 3 position toggle
switch
you could easily set up write protected, write enabled & normal

Wayne