Re: Macintosh 5 1/4" drive wanted

[cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)]

As posted and pointed out by davezinkin@aol.com (David Zinkin)
see below:

"The DaynaFile and the Apple 5 1/4" drive for the Mac wouldn't read Apple II
disks.  BUT...

Kennect Technology made two different 5 1/4" drives some years back that, when
coupled with the company's Rapport floppy-drive adapter, would read both PC-and
Apple II-formatted 5 1/4" disks.  The adapter plugged into the Mac's external
floppy port (which means it won't work on current Macs), and either drive
plugged into the adapter.

There were two models, the 360 and the 1200.  Both were advertised as able to
read 5 1/4" Apple ProDOS disks and 360K MS-DOS disks; the difference was that
the 1200 could also read high-density MS-DOS disks.  I'm not sure how many of
each were made, but I've only seen one (a 360) in over 15 years of working with
Macs and Apple IIs."

And, I reply:
After reading this, I pulled out this old beast of a 5.25 disk drive I found
discarded last year in a parking lot of a local supermarket, recalling it was
made by Kennect Technology with the model number 1200 on it.

Sure enough...that's exactly what it is and it does connect and read ProDOS
5.25 disks on a Mac II series in this fashion.  You can bet I'm going to keep
it and won't sell it for any amount now.  Thanks very much for the post,
information and enlightenment on this David Zinkin.

Cheers,
Tom

PS:  I have a good friend that's visiting me in September to go to the Vintage
Computer Fair with me.  Hes very skilled with hardware and making prototypes
from existing rare hardware also.  I'm going to ask him to see if he can come
up with some information as such, to pass on the the public on this disk drive.
 Stay tuned.