Re: Apple III?

[T. Sean <snertking@my-deja.com>]

In article <386131ea.11387177@news2.lightlink.com>,
  edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) wrote:

> You'll want Disk ]|[ drives, not Disk ]['s.  They have the same
> mechanism, but the ports and electronics are different.

actually, the electronics are identical. The II and III disks used the
same analog card. Only the cable connectors were different. (I used to
be an apple service technician about 15 years ago...)

actually, since they use a db19 connector, if I recall correctly, a
beige iie unidisk might work....

>
> 3.5" drives won't work on an Apple ///, will they?

Um, Don't think so... you MIGHT get a Unidisk 3.5 to work.. Dunno for
sure... but didn't they work un-modded plugged into the apple IIe disk
controller for the unidisk/doudisk? which was just a diskII controller
with a DB19 connector?

>
> >Apple S.O.S
>
>
ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/asimov/images/masters/Apple_3_system_disks.zip
>
> >Color Monitor III (or any COLOR monitor)
>
> I heard once that Apple IIgs RGB monitors work with the Apple ///'s
> other monitor port.

probably not. the iigs monitor uses analog signals, i'm pretty sure, and
the III used TTL rgb. Same signal as the apple II video seven rgb
card.

(historical speculation - since RGB cards only worked in apple II's slot
7, might that be where video7, makers of such cards and big manufacturer
of PC vga cards in the 80's got their name? anyone know?)

Actually, if you just put a db-15 to db-15 sub mini converter on the
port, ANY multiscanning monitor that will handle a TTL signal (and those
are rare these days, since vga is analog...) will work. The nec
multisync and nec mutisync2 (but not the multisync2a) will work, for
instance....


T. Sean


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