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Re: IIe 3.5 disk drive controller card

Subject: Re: IIe 3.5 disk drive controller card
From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
Date: 23 Feb 2005 17:44:42 -0800
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Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net> writes:
> The Apple 3.5" drives all have in common that they have a variable
> rotation rate and can read the 800k 'standard' formatted DD disk media.

All except Apple's earliest 3.5" drive used on the Lisa 2 and original
Macintosh, which only did 400K single-sided DD format, and recent
internal 3.5" drives on Macintoshes, which no longer support GCR.

There was an external version of the 400K drive, but it did not work on
any Apple II controller made by Apple.  There was at least one
third-party controller for the Apple II that did work with it.

Eric

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