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Re: IIe Card floppy drive hook-up woes



Douglas Taylor wrote:
> 
The IIE card cable I have here, shows 590-0703-A as part number on the
cable.  There is a Apple icon on the single end and a joystick icon on
one of the two ends, a floppy disk (5.25) icon on the other end.

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> Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
> 
> > Ah!!
> >
> > Stupid me . . .
> >
> > The Y-cable, P/N 590-4539 I have has *monitor* icons on its two ends away
> > from the Apple logo.  Some kind of monitor splitter.
> >
> > I guess the wrong cable was with my NIB IIe card.
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
> The cable you have is likely the monitor pass-through cable for one of
> the various DOS cards that Apple made for Macintosh.
> 
> I've seen the //e card Y cable going for reasonable prices on eBay from
> time to time.
> 
> Doug
> 
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