On 11/20/2012 04:06 PM, Charlie wrote:
You can use an Apple 3.5" drive and it will work with both the PCT and the Apple. You can NOT use a UniDisk 3.5". As for 5.25" drives the PCT uses its own "TransDrives" but I believe they are the same mechanism as a PC drive but with different case and cables (I never had a TransDrive so I could be wrong). They are daisy chained if more than one drive is used.
The 5.25" mechanisms are standard PC drives. The cabling is completely custom. Be CAREFUL if you build your own! Back when I was doing development for Applied Engineering, I smoked two PCTs in a row due to a factory-miswired floppy cable :-).
I think you can also connect a 720k 3.5" diskette drive, but this will only read and write MFM format. Won't interchange with the host drive.