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Re: Emergency Apple II rescue

Subject: Re: Emergency Apple II rescue
From: me2@nowhere.org (Bart)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:00:08 -0000
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>9) 3x 5.25" Apple 360K ms-dos floppy disk drives.  What are these?  They
>have a 37 pin D shell connector, just like external PC 5.25" or 8"
>floppy disks.  On the underside are labels that state that the drive can
>read MS-DOS 360K floppies.  They have a PC connector, not an apple one,
>but they are in Platinum Apple cases and have the apple multicolored
>logo on them.

Dennis Your strange Floppy drive is a Apple made external 360k MFM style 
floppy.  These were made to interface with a Mac with a special card (I think) 
early on as a possible IBM PC to Mac fileshare dodge.  I have a drive too.  
That plug 
is the same as the one used on early 8 bit ISA Tape drive cards (in PCs)  I 
know, I have a few of those too.  I tried to marry the two in a 386 but alas 
no luck.  
If anyone else has info, or a source for the Mac(?) card/ or way to hook it to 
a Mac, 
I am really interested too.

-Bart

References:
- Emergency Apple II rescue
  - From: Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>

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