Re: Apple UniDisk 3.5 vs. Apple 3.5

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5cavjr$1nkg@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
 <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

>The UDC was at least as popular as the disk controllers manufactured by
>Apple.

I doubt that. I personally have never seen one, nor have I ever known
anyone with one. When you consider all the //c's and IIgses with built in 
ports, "disk controllers manufactured by Apple" far outnumber UDCs.
Not to mention the fact that Apple hardware is more common and easy to come
by today. It doesn't matter what was common/popular ten or more years ago
when you're trying to connect up a 3.5 floppy now, now does it? You'll be
using what you can get or be doing without.

>You can eject a floppy from a older Mac 800K drive that dosen't have
>an eject button by using software.  The Apple II Desktop can do this,
>as can various BASIC and P8 programs (little routines that eject disks),
>the GS can of course, some CDA's can do so, and a macro for AppleWorks
>Classic too.

It'd be much easier to use a paper clip than quit an app to run a little
program to eject a disk. And that's not overly convenient either. I had to
do it when the eject motor on my Quadra's floppy quit until I swapped a new
motor off a broken 800K onto it, and it sucked.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com