Re: IIe emulator drive questions...

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

Dan Tremitiere (dantrem@gatecoms.gatecom.com) wrote:
: I've got an old Disk ][ clone laying around that I'd like to use with my 
: IIe card in my Mac.  I know a Disk ][ can be used with an adapter in a 
: //c, and that the "grey UniDisk" Apple specifies for the IIe card can 
: also be used with the //c.  My question is this: Will an adapted Disk ][ 
: fry my IIe card, or is this grey-only mandate only one of Apple's ploys 
: to get someone to rebuy something they already have?  I'll be using the 
: Disk ][ as the only external drive.  Any comments would help.

Are you sure the 'grey only' rule applies to the 5-1/4" drive?  My
understanding is that the grey 5-1/4 Unidisk and the beige 5-1/4 Unidisk
are identical except for the color.  The grey 3.5" drives, on the other
hand, are different from the older beige model...something about the
internal daisy-chain circuitry or something.  The UniDisk 5.25 and the
Disk ][ use the exact same controller card, so my guess is that with an
adapter you can connect your Disk ][.  And probably have longer MTBF than
with the UniDisk, but that's another story.

No guarantees; just my thoughts.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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