Re: Apple IIgs + 1.44mb PowerMac Drive

["D. Michael Spurgeon" <mike@spurgeon.net>]

Alastair Boyanich wrote:
> 
> Hi..I'm trying to get my IIgs running again and discovered that my
> floppy drive's heads are mangled. It appears to have the same plug
> connector of the newer 68k and PPC mac's. So I plugged one in. But
> nothing boots, I get blue screen, whizzing apple and the "Boong!"
> noise. Anyone know if there's a conversion kit you can make? Any
> help would be appreciated.
> 
> Ideally it'd be nice to have 1.44mb of storage on a IIgs floppy,
> but I'd be more than happy just to get the thing running again with
> 800k disks.

A superdrive (1.44) controller card is available from Shreve
Systems for $59.