Re: A2GS 1.44 " Drives

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:07:24 -0700, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

>There's two ways you can do this. With an Apple II superdrive card
>you can use an Apple 1.44mb drive to read Apple & Mac 1.44mb
>and 800k floppies as well as PC 1.44 & 720k disks.

You can use an Applied Engineering HD drive with that controller too.

>There's also a controller from a german company called SHH systeme.
>This controller lets you use a PC floppy drive on an Apple II. The
>drive'll let you use 1.44mb disks and I believe read 720k pc floppies
>but it won't read Apple 800k disks.

You can also connect PC 2.88 MB floppy drives to that card as well but
the drives and the disks are fairly rare.

You missed a third option, though.  You can also use a SCSI controller
and hook up a drive that supports 720K and 1.44M floppies.  The most
common SCSI drive that supports this is called a floptical.

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