Re: pc drive card

["Thomas D. Richards" <lakeside@airmail.net>]

I have a couple of those 5.25 360k drives for the mac if your friend
needs one.  I installed the card in a SE and picked up 3 or 4 drives for
a song.

Tom Richards
lakeside@airmail.net

David Empson wrote:

> Thomas Bosboom <bmsbosbo@knoware.nl> wrote:
>
> > a friend oif mine owns a mac IIfx (upgraded to an fx, that is) which
> has
> > a card called PC drive Card , manufactered by Apple,
> > in one of its Nubus slots. It dated 1987
> > Does anyone now what it is?
>
> (This is the wrong newsgroup for this question, but I'll answer it
> anyway.  Macintosh questions belong in the comp.sys.mac groups.)
>
> Apple made a PC-compatible 5.25" drive around 1987 or 1988.  It was
> supports on the Mac SE and any NuBus Mac, by inserting the appropriate
>
> controller card.
>
> If my recollection is correct, it only supported 360K disks.  It was a
>
> special drive, with some features similar to Apple's native drives.
> The
> card will not work with standard PC 5.25" drives.
>
> You need to run Apple File Exchange to make use of it, which means
> running System 7.0.1 or earlier (or possibly 7.1).
>
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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