Re: I have a IIgs. So now what?

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

Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:

> Greg Buchner wrote:
> 
> > The Mac Plus has an 800K internal drive.  The only Macs with 400K drives
> > were the original Macintosh (128k) and the Macintosh 512k.  The Mac
> > Plus, the 512ke, the SE and the Mac II all originally shipped with 800K
> > drives.  All Mac after that up until the iMac shipped with 1.4M drives.
> 
> Hm. I really need to get that memory leak fixed. It must be a Mac 512k then.
> I remember having to do a double shuffle of PC to mac classic to mystery mac
> to make a system disk set.

That points to it being any of the models Greg mentioned (up to the SE
or II). A PC and Mac Classic can exchange data using a 1.4M floppy (or
720K), and the Classic can also access 400K/800K floppies.

> I can tell you the mystery mac uses the same mouse that the //e does,
> because I borrowed the mouse for my //e.

That makes it a Mac 128K, 512K, 512KE or Plus.

The original Mac 400K and 800K floppy drives (without eject buttons)
will work on all Mac models at least up to the Plus, but don't work on
an Apple II unless you have a Universal Disk Controller. They would only
work on the Mac SE and later models if they still had the timing signal
output which is required to control the drive's rotation speed. This is
unlikely.

The Apple 3.5 Drive works on a IIgs or IIc+ disk port, or on a IIe with
Universal Disk Controller, or on a SuperDrive card, or on a PC
Transporter (with a few issues). On the Mac side, it works on the SE, II
and later models with an external disk port. I'm not sure whether it
works on a Plus or 512KE, but it won't work on a Mac 128K or 512K.

Can anyone fill in one key detail: does an Apple 3.5 Drive (A9M0106)
work on a Mac Plus? I suspect it doesn't.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz