Re: Adding a second floppy drive to an Apple IIe

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Jeff Shanholtz <jeffsubs@shanholtz.com> wrote:
> Swapped in known good 2003 and '125 chips and that made no difference.
> I'm going to check the cable next.
> 
> BTW, I opened up one of the non-apple drives, which is in a generic
> looking enclosure with thin sheet metal. On first glance it looks like
> the innards are apple. Did apple ever sell drives with thin sheet
> metal or would this be an apple manufactured but rebranded drive?

If it's an Apple analog board, then someone probably "recased" it.  ;-)

Otherwise, it's a clone.  Apple published the schematics and also sold them
for more than 3x their cost, so cloning was inevitable. 

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