Re: 3.5 drive A9M0106 on Apple II

["AIIFREAK" <chemicus1@gmx.de>]

Mirko wrote:
> Thanks Mitch,
>
> now it's all very clear
>
> Mirko
>
> "Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> > "Mirko" <mirko@yack.com> wrote:
> >
> >>What card has to be used on an Apple II-IIe to connect a 3.5 drive ? Is
> >>there an Apple 'special' adapter for 800 k disk ?
> >>I suppose I can't use 'standard' 5.25 disk II adapters (even those with db
> >>connector...)
> >>
> >>I'm asking this because here in Italy from 1986 on, it never appeared such
> >>a
> >>card on Apple Catalogs (probably it was never imported)
> >
> >    There are basically 4 major options for connecting up a 3.5 floppy
> > drive:
> >
> > - Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card
> > Works with: Apple UniDisk 3.5, Apple 3.5 and Apple SuperDrive (1.44M)
> >
> > - Apple 3.5 Floppy Interface Card (aka "Liron")
> > Works with: Apple UniDisk 3.5
> >
> > - Laser Universal Disk Controller
> > Works with: Apple UniDisk 3.5, Apple 3.5, beige Macintosh 400K (M130)
> > and Macintosh 800K (M131), Apple 5.25 and compatibles.
> >
> > - SHH BlueDisk Card
> > Works with: IBM PC 3.5 drives (720K, 1.44M, 2.88M) and 5.25 drives
> > (360K and 1.2M). Will not recognize Apple GCR formatted disks.
> >
> >    There are some more obscure options too, like using the AE
> > PC-Transporter
> > card as a floppy controller, or older, rarer and lesser known cards that
> > were
> > on the market in the early 80's.
> >
> >    There are several drawbacks with the Liron and BlueDisk, such as the
> > "intelligent" UniDisk 3.5 operating at half the speed of an Apple 3.5
> > drive.
> > Looking at the BlueDisk, the floppy drives will need their own power
> > source
> > and cannot read or write Apple formatted floppies. For that reason I would
> > recommend either of the other two controllers.
> >
> > Mitchell Spector
> >
> >Hi Mirko
There is a new seller on ebay-apple24u.com- which offered 3,5"disk
drive with card ! Site is on construction yet. I've got an Apple 3,5
Floppy disk drive interface card 603-9107-A,1985 by mistake from
another seller on ebay.