Re: IIc external drive?

[Bryan Villados <news001@nospam_macgeek.org>]

> One is Apple's 5.25 inch "PC" drive for the Mac. Luckily, I found the
> NuBUS controller card for this as well, and it even
> works.
> 

I have one of these running on my Macintosh II in my museum. Apple only
made controllers for the Macintosh SE and II that supported this
particular drive. And the connector for the drive is HUGE!!!!!

> The other one is a IIc external 5.25 inch disk drive (model A2M4050).
> Works as well.
> 
> I only have an old un-upgraded IIc though ("ROM OO") beside the IIgs.
> 
> It would be nice to use this drive on other IIs or Macs, since I have
> some Apple 3.5 inch daisy-chainable drives which
> work on the IIgs and the Mac.

I always wondered if the IIc external 5.25" drive is the same as the
UniDisk 5.25" drive. Anyone know?

> 
> The IIc drive can plug into the back of these, but will I be able to use
> them in some way? Or are these things ONLY usable
> on a IIc?
> 
> Regards, Ruud
> 
> PS. Also, would it be possible to use MS-DOS formatted media with these
> drives in some way? Are there AII programs to do so?
> It would be handy to be able to convert DOS/A2 software from 5.25 to
> 3.5, sometimes.

Going back to the 5.25" PC drive... This drive supported only the
MS-DOS format. I wasn't able to format Macintosh 5.25" diskettes. That
would've been pretty neat if I could!