Re: SuperDrive Card (Apple II 3.5" Disk Controller Card) and FDHD Questions...

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net> wrote:

>"Matthew S. Carpenter" <superpsycho@comcast.net> wrote:
>>That "1.44 Super Drives!" listing that's around the middle of the page 
>>on the right.... would it be possible to know if that mechanism could be 
>>put into the case of an Apple 3.5 drive to produce a superdrive?
>
>Yes!
>
>Just so you know, I have ordered about every different (mac) mechanism 
>there is and they ALL work as replacement 800k drives and as A2 Super 
>drives, regardless of what Shreve was telling me.

    That's not entirely true. SuperDrive mechanisms manufactured by IBM
(those with a black dust shutter and manual inject) will _NOT_ work with 
any Apple II model. These were in circulation from late 1993 to 1998.

    Only the Sony SuperDrive is compatible (circa 1988 to 1993).

Mitchell Spector