Re: How to use 3.5" PC drives as Apple ][ 5.25" drives?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <6hainu$pif$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
 <marcovecchio@visualbyte.com.br> wrote:
>I can't find any more 5.25" disks for sale

   Try http://www.pricewatch.com under Storage -> Media -> 5.25". Lots of
places listed. 

>So, I would like to know if anybody knows a way to adapt a regular
>1.44Mb 3.5" PC drive on a Apple ][ to work exactly like a Apple ][
>5.25" drive.

   Highly doubtful, especially if you even have the slightest chance
of copy protected stuff "working." You'd need to design and build a
new floppy controller at a minimum, and the added complexity of trying
to make a 3.5" disk act like a 5.25" is going to make this a very
nasty problem. It'd be way cheaper to buy 5.25" disks for at least the
next 5 years. [And in 5 years, I'd bet that PC 3.5" drives will
finally be going near extinct.]

Nathan Mates


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