Re: Report: UniDisk 3.5 to Apple 3.5 conversion (lobotomy) works

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>: New Apple IIGS user tjmahan@earthlink.net (Trevor) emailed
>: me with a problem.  He had a UniDisk 3.5 drive and System
>: 6.0.1 would not boot without a driver.  I directed him to a
>: UniDisk 3.5 to Apple 3.5 conversion document (titled UniDisk
>: lobotomy) I found on the ground server.
>
>: Trever has emailed me to say that it works!  The UniDisk 3.5
>: drive is now an Apple 3.5 drive with all the benefits of being
>: such a unit (like System 6.0.1 booting, greater speed, etc).
>
>: So any Apple IIGS user stuck with a UniDisk 3.5 drive take
>: note: there IS a way out!
>
>Yeah, the way out is to sell or trade the scarce Unidisk to someone who
>needs it and get one or more of the dime a dozen grey 3.5s. A Unidisk is
>worth a stack of the grey ones.

I should have mentioned that the lobotomy is reversable.  The
UniDisk's brain is bypassed but left intact in the conversion.
All you have to do to reactivate it is to swap some cables.  I
think any IIGS user with a UniDisk 3.5 should lobotomize but
hang onto the drive.  Who knows, its value may increase as
you point out.

Lobotomizing the drive speeds it up, eliminates the need for
the UniDisk3.5 driver, and lets the drive work with IIGS demos.