Re: Apple PC disl drive?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <31dnja$846@eis.calstate.edu>,
Steve Jensen <sjensen@eis.calstate.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone help me identify this disk drive?  It's an Apple PC 5.25
> model number A9M0110.  It has a 37 pin connector. 

This drive was released back in about 1987 or 1988.  It can be used on
a Macintosh to read/write IBM PC 5.25" double density disks (360k
format).  Like, wow man.  Modern technology.  :-)

To use the drive on a Mac, you need a controller card.  As far as I
know, there were two cards released: one for the Mac SE and the other
for NuBus (Mac II family).

The drive cannot read Apple II 5.25" disks and cannot be used on any
other computer.

> Could it be used on a PC Transporter card?

Definitely not (well, maybe, if you went to a large amount of trouble
finding out how the connector was wired and how the drive worked, but I
think the drive has some intelligence, so you'd have to go to an awful
lot of work).
-- 
David Empson
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