Re: Apple /// questions - yes, I can count!

[hirsch@air.steve.net (Steven N. Hirsch)]

In article <60hkaj$p0q$1@europa.frii.com>, Randy Shackelford wrote:

>Dave Ottalini is Mr. III pretty much. He helped me scare up a III plus,
>which is a pretty rare bird. It was in production perhaps five months.
>What's your serial #? Mine is 7800-something.

I didn't realize the ///+ was a rarity.  I was given one about 2 weeks
ago, and it's in great shape.  Out of curiousity, what is the little
rocker switch on the left apron for?

>>9> I have two Disk /// external disk drives from an Apple ///(non-plus).
>>However, the ///+ has a DB-25 external disk connector, not a DIP-20.
>>Rather than hunt for Disk /// drives with DB-25 connectors, which are
>>likely near impossible to find, can I alter these Disk ///s to connect?
>>Pinouts of the DB-25 and the DIP-20 would be sufficient, since I'm handy
>>with a soldering iron.  Or does someone have two Disk ///s with DB-25s
>>they'd trade for my Disk ///s with DIP-20s?
>
>People say that there was an adaptor for III pluses to use Disk IIIs, and
>all Disk IIIs have the 20 pin molex style plug. Fat chance finding the
>adaptor these days I'd say.

There was an adapter for this.  Fortunately, it came attached to a
Disk /// I purchased on the net.  It's Apple PN 655-6101A, in case you
run across it.

>>10> Anyone got a set of ProFile low-level format ROMs and software they'd
>>sell me?  Just in case...
>
>I have the controller card from a gutted profile and it looks to have the
>formatting chip, but got no software.

By "formatting chip", are you saying that it has a piggy-back style Z8
processor?  I think they actually shipped production units with a
piggyback chip early on.  If you actually _do_ have the formatter ROM
for a 10M ProFile, PLEASE drop me E-Mail offline?

Steve