2E - 3.5" drive question

[Jazzmanian <jazzmanianNOjaSPAM@yahoo.com.invalid>]

I read in a web FAQ the following quote....


"     The classic white Unidisk drive was released in 1985 as a 3.5"
platform for the IIe and IIc.  This release date was 18 months prior to
the introduction of the IIgs.  Disks written by the Unidisk 3.5 and
Platinum 3.5 drives are fully interchangeable; the two models differed
because the earlier Unidisk 3.5 used an intelligent
microprocessor-controlled analog board to slow the data transfer rate
to match the IIe/IIc parameters.  This slowdown was not needed for the
popular platinum  3.5 drive used by the IIgs."

I recently aquired a IIe and want to play with it for fun. But it came
with no diskettes whatsoever so I have no OS to boot.

I have tried to build a boot diskette using software on my Mac, and
800k prodos format, but I think I may have the wrong 3.5 disk drive.

Can anyone tell me the model # for a 3.5" drive that will work with a
IIe.  The drives I have are model A9M0106.

Otherwise is there any way to build a 5.25" boot disk if you don't have
one now, and don't have comm software ?

Thanks - Jazzmanian@yahoo.com



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