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Re: Identifying some cards
- Subject: Re: Identifying some cards
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 14 Feb 2004 00:25:40 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <402d46fc$0$38399$45beb828@newscene.com>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:3433
Michael Maginnis wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>
>--<snip>--
>
>> Sounds like the drive you'd use with a PC Transporter...a run-of-the-mill
>> 5.25" DSDD drive that uses MFM and puts 360K on a disk. The mechanism, if
>> removed from its case, should work with any x86 box (I haven't run across
>> one yet that doesn't have a floppy controller on it). On a II, I would
>> think a BlueDisk (?) would be able to use it as well, but it's not a Disk
>> II-compatible device.
>
>Hmm. Wonder why it was plugged into a standard Disk II controller.
>Maybe the thrift store just pieced it together to look "good" for the
>display, without bothering to test it.
I hope it didn't damage your disk port--ISTR that some of these disks
were electrically incompatible with the Apple disk port... ;-(
-michael
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