Re: REQUEST: Apple IIc 5.25" drive to borrow?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Bill Scheffler (schefflr@news.msus.edu) wrote:
: Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: :    Except for the 5.25" drive that plugged into the //e emulation card
: : for some LC-style Macs, you can't access Apple II 5.25" disks from a
: : mac.

: :    Chalk it up to another layer of "shafting backwards compatability
: : and trying to divorce all traces of a good past."

: 	Well, I dunno how pratical it would be to have built-in support
: for a 140k drive on a Mac...but someone should create a "Mac addon" for
: those who need access to the older drives.  Perhaps a card (kinda
: difficult since you have the "LC Type slot", NuBus, and now PCI slots.
: Although, the later could be useful in developing a simple (inexpensive)
: card that would let both PC's and Macintosh's read Apple II formatted
: diskettes (with driver software for each machine of course).
: 	However, for the sake of progress, I don't think Macs (or PC's)
: should have to support old (but reliable) hardware standards.

Pretty much. The new Pentium boxes at work (eeuuww, I said the P-word) don't
have 5.25 drives, and PC's used to use them. Bitching at Apple for not
having Mac support for 140K 5.25s is idiotic. Macs did have 5.25 support for
360K 5.25s once upon a time, supporting the SE and nubus Macs. Since you
can read and write every 3.5 disk format under the sun with a superdrive, this
is adequate for file transfer if you ask me.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net