Re: Floppy Interfaces

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Paul Grammens <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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>
> John H Maxwell <maxwell@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote in message
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> > 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 think that's possible with a card, but I thought it wasn't without a
card.
> I never tried it, since it was said it wouldn't work and I didn't want to
> damage anything.

OK, I tried my Color Classic with IIe card, with a 5.25" drive attached. It
worked fine in IIe mode, but was not available in Mac mode.  So I'd guess it
was a different card in the IIcx.
-Paul