Re: Identifying Appleparts

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Welcome to CSA2 Joe,
I think I can speak for everyone in saying that your quesions are welcome
here and likely someone can answer them. However I don't mean this badly
but I think you're asking too many questions in one posting. Usually it's best
if you have quite a few questions to make several postings. It makes it much
easier to answer. If you have cards that you can't identify, describe them her.

It'd be a pretty oddball card that someone couldn't pin down.
I'll try one of your questions since I have to go out soon and pick up some
Apple II equipment. Undoubtedly someone will expand on my answer and
someone will cover the rest.
I take it you're asking about the 3.5" Unidisk. To use one on a IIe you need
a controller card . The card, made by Apple, can be identified by the
inscription
Liron on the solder side or the words "APPLE 3.5 FLOPPY DISK DRIVE
INTERFACE CARD" on the component side.
The 3.5 UniDisk drive is white in color, the eject button is higher than the
floppy disk opening and there is a small 1/8" hole under the eject button not
in the middle as in some other drives. On the bottom, if someone hasn't
peeled it off is a label saying "UniDisk 3.5"


get bent wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I owned a IIe when they were new ($3,000.00), and when they discontinued the
> line and didn't make a compatible system (or at least publicize one) for
> three years, I bought a PC and swore never to return to apple land.  Now, I
> have several IIe's, a IIc, twelve extra drives (some even work!), and a ton
> of floppies. I would like to know how to identify a "unidisk" perferably by
> maker/serial number, and the old winchester drives they made for the II
> systems, and according controller cards. I would like to get a 3.5 drive for
> the iie, because the 5.25's are dying fast. Obviously a IIgs would be swell,
> but I have no idea how to identify one. Several of my systems have
> unidentified cards (other than the super serial, drive, 80col, and memory
> cards) and I have no idea what they are.  Can I post to this group and/or
> can somebody help me to identify the cards I do have, and is there a catalog
> of "desired" or "must have" items for the II line (such as a "transwarp"
> whatever the heck that is.) so I can identify them when they hit the local
> thrifts.
>
> OK, I guess what I'm asking is... is there a site for oldbies. I know and
> can identify what existed that I owned and used, but I can't identify what I
> haven't seen or remember.
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
>
> Joe Larson
> joebot