Re: Floppy Interfaces

[John H Maxwell <maxwell@acsu.buffalo.edu>]

Hi All,
   Had to contribute my two cents. I have seen a 'newer' Mac successfully
operate a 5.25" Apple ][ diskette drive. A local library had a Mac ][cx
with a 5.25" drive attached to it. I used it once to 'test the theory' and it
formatted the diskette with no problems and copied files to it, too. I
even went as far as to flip the drive upside down to make sure it wasn't
a 'Mac' product - nope - said nothing Mac-specific on it. Unfortunately
I did not have a ProDOS diskette with me (it was in my other trousers ;-)
to test to see if it could read it, but would imagine that it would. I checked

the Apple menu and the System folder for any obvious drivers and didn't
find anything out of the ordinary.

   Regards,
     -John

Simon Biber wrote:

> Is the DB-19 Floppy interface on my platinum IIe the same as the one on my
> Mac Plus? Are there any drives which work on both? (I assume the Mac can't
> read my 5.25" one).
>
> Simon.

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