Re: Remember? Apple IIe Disk Cartridge Drive.

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Buster Christenson writes ...
> 
> Ok, let's see if anyone remember these.
> 
> I have sitting in front of me a drive for the Apple IIe
> that held five 5 1/4" diskettes in a plastic cartridge.
> Each of these diskettes held way more than the standard
> diskettes, I think they were hard-sectored too.
> 
> You ended up slipping this cartridge of disks into a drive
> about the size of a breadbox.
> 
> These were in-use in my high school in the counselor's area.
> They were used for determining careers by giving a test and
> matching to a career.  The disk pack cases had "Wisconsin Career
> Information System" all over them.  I think they were used
> for gathering student information for some study the University
> of Wisconsin-Madison did sometime around October 1986.
> 
> This drive held alot of data for it's time.  I seem to remember
> being able to fit something like 10-15 diskettes worth on these
> packs.  I had a disk pack full of games that I would "rent" to
> people in the computer lab.
> 
> Well, when I went back to visit my high school a long time ago, they
> had one more of these left that they didn't want.  So I got it.
> 
> When I got it home, I made some phone calls.  I got hold of
> some dealer that had 4 packs of brand-new disks for it.  I got
> the last of them.  They're made by Dysan with a label that says
> they're "UHRII  Cartridge with 5 Diskettes   REORDER #802903-12".
> They're still shrink wrapped, hehe.
> 
> The big hassle is the TSR/Driver that had to be loaded up to
> get this drive to work.  It only worked with Apple DOS and not
> Pro-DOS.  I remember starting to rewrite it for Pro-dos when I
> was in High School, but never finished.  Last time used this
> drive was in 1992.  Ever since, it's been sitting in the closet
> with the Apple IIe that it was hooked up to.
> 
> Someone else has to remember these drives.  Were they
> used by anyone other than the Wisconsin Schools?
> 
> On the back of the drive it has two labels...
> |------------------------------|
> |Product:  CEO                 |
> |model No.: 1000-SSN           |
> |Serial No: 8410xx             |
> |------------------------------|
> 
> |------------------------------|
> |   New Age Computer Systems   |
> | *Service*Software*Supplies*  |
> |     1327 Juniper             |
> |      Cleveland, WI 85015     |
> |      (414) 693-3141          |
> |------------------------------|
> 
 ....

     Interesting story. I've never heard anything about such a drive. If the
5.25" disks are sealed inside the package, perhaps it's some kind of removable
pack 'hard disk'.

     Since you have the drive and driver software, why not try it out under DOS
3.3 (or whatever DOS is used)?



Rubywand