Re: Woohoo! 1.44MB floppy!

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Mike Guidero wrote:
> 
> I recently got (for free!) a bunch of cards... one of them said "Apple 3.5
> Disk Controller Card."
> 
> Hmmm... I don't remember which card this is, I said to myself.  Quick
> google... oh yeah!!!! THE SuperDrive card!
> 
> Damn!  No superdrive...
> 
> Wait, I've got a floppy drive from a Quadra... nope, won't work.  Wait, got
> one from a IIcx.  Swap it with my spare 800K 3.5 drive mechanism.
> 
> Try to format 1.44MB disk... no go... bad drive.
> 
> Then I remember!  I've got an old SE/30 in the closet.  Dig it out.  Take it
> apart and get the floppy drive.  Install it into 3.5 drive.  Hook it up.
> Put in a HD floppy, plug it into the IIgs.  Woohoo!  It works!
> 
> Sorry, just had to tell!
> Mike

I was pretty excited when I first got my Superdrive card though what it
cost 
me did take a bit out of it. That was the only time I had let something
be 
sent by UPS and I didn't realize what it was going to end up costing me.
I'm 
in Canada and someone had mentioned a $30 customs brokerage fee but I
can 
live with that. Because of my job they weren't able to deliver it to me
at 
work so I had to pick it up at their office and there was the snag. They 
were only open 9-5 and I worked 8-5:30. And while they delivered in this 
city their office was in an adjoining city, about a 1 3/4 hour drive if 
everything goes well so I take 3 hours off work just to be sure. 
I also pulled my drive out of a Mac though I had to buy one first. 

	Wayne