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Re: 400k (?) drive
- Subject: Re: 400k (?) drive
- From: david@wraith.its.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
- Date: 1996/02/27
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
- References: <8BAC505.0221001939.uuout@digitec.co.za> <4go6dd$d4u@lynx.unm.edu>
buggie@auriga.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) writes:
>Forget about using the early 400K MAc drive on an Apple II.
>What you _can_ do is to remove the cable, and install the cable on a Disk
>II or other flat-ribbon IDE-20 Apple II drive.
Are you sure about that? I took one apart and found that the -12v pin has
no connecting wire. If you have a clone drive that does not need -12v then
it would work but genuine Apple Disk ][s need -12v to function.
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David Wilson Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia david@cs.uow.edu.au