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Re: re 5.25 drive



Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: In article <lampkp-2404981736490001@smpm0-224.itouch.net>,
:  <lampkp@itouch.net> wrote:
: >I am thinking of putting a 5.25 drive on a Mac IIsi so that I can download
: >some Apple2 appl's for an Apple //e. Can this be done?

:    Nope. Despite *looking* and *fitting* in the drive connector port,
: the Mac has never had support for Apple II 5.25" drives. [They had

This group's resident boob and Apple hater has forgotten two facts. First
is that certain Macs have 5.25 drive support via the Apple //e card. That
card also runs 8 bit II software. The other is that there are more Apple
made devices than there are connector types, so some are necessarily reused
for different devices. He's really grasping at straws when he uses that
idiotic reasoning to bash Apple.

I've Bobbitted the rest of his idiocy.
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