Re: Macintosh 5 1/4" drive wanted

[Alan Tuttle <news001@macgeek.org>]

More details about the Apple PC 5.25" drive...

- Manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. around 1987
- Drive model #A9M0110
- Drive has a DB-37 male connection to a proprietary NuBus controller
- Controller part #820-0213

I have one on my Macintosh IICX, and it works great! :) Matter of fact,
the diskette inserts and ejects much cleaner than the Disk II or the
Unidisk 5.25" drive.

I obtained my drive from eBay about a month ago. You don't see these
guys pop up often, but I was fortunate enough to win this one for $4.01
plus s/h. I haven't seen another one pop up since then.

In article <7patth$99j$2@dove.qut.edu.au>, Willie Yeo
<yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au> wrote:

> Henrik Gudat (not@available.com) wrote:
> 
> : There are no 5.25" drives for the Macintosh.
> 
>         There is one, Henrik, I hate to admit it. I am not sure if it is a
> SCSI interface (which I think it might be).
> 
>         And yes, it >*IS*< an Apple-branded one, it's the Apple 5.25" PC
> floppy drive for the Macintosh. I recently saw one, right here down under
> in Australia. For sure, it looks too PeeCeeish then Mac'ish.
> 
>         But if that piece of drive (powered via external SCSI) is any use,
> how the hell would it use GCR on the MFM encoding ? I am not even sure if
> it will achieve reading the Apple II disks at all !
> 
>         But sure, if you are interested to see the drive, I will see if I
> can get a QuickTake camera (wish there is an Apple II driver !!) and snap
> the drive and put in somewhere for csa2 to see it.
> 
>         But if Henrik wishes to have a go at it, I will see if the owner
> is willing to allow me to ship it across to the Swiss Alps for the Woof
> bunch to work on a driver (?) to read directly ?