Re: Help: Unidisk 5.25

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:
: In article <32e80dc9.853396@167.152.149.11>,
: Edhel Iaur, Esq. <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:
: >On 23 Jan 1997 03:39:23 GMT, biglous@aol.com (BigLouS) wrote:
: >
: >>I recently picked up a 5.25 Unidisk. It has a beige case, a colored apple
: >>logo and a 25 pin DB connector. It's Apple P/N A9M0104. Can someone tell
: >>me something about it?
: >
: >It's the same 140K 5.25" drive as all the other Apple drives are, with
: >the possible difference of having a DB-25 connector and a daisy-chain
: >port.

: More precisely, it's the exact same unit as the grey 5.25 drive, before
: it was made grey and given a name change when the IIgs came out.
: -- 
: Randy Shackelford                                 
: shack@frii.com                                    

Waidaminit...I don't have the part numbers in front of me, but I'm a bit
suspicious.  Are you sure that is a DB-25?  If it is a *DB-19* then
everyone is absolutely correct; this is an Apple 5.25 Drive.  But wasn't
there also a beige Apple 5.25" drive designed to connect to Macintoshes
but designed to read MFM disks?  I think I saw one *once*...

But maybe I'm suffering from faulty memory.  Also, if the drive in
question has a DB-19 connector on the cable but lacks a daisy-chain port,
then it is probably a drive for a IIc.  It will work with other ]['s, but
for obvious reasons would have to be the last drive in the chain.

]Dave Althoff, ][.
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