Re: Remember? Apple IIe Disk Cartridge Drive.

[Buster Christenson <lathrop@azstarnet.com>]

Actually, the Diskettes in the package are quite different.

I seem to remember them being "hard sectored" or something
like that.  At least, you couldn't use normal diskettes in
there(even with both sides activated).  There were some extra
notches these diskettes and I think some "indexing" holes.

It's kind of strange to think that they had this unit specifically
designed for their use, and no one else used it.  It was
years ahead of it's time.  Nothing else out there could match
it's storage for the price.

Buster

Rubywand wrote:
> 
> Buster Christenson writes ...
> >
> > Well, it wasn't exactley a "hard disk" style access you
> > had to this setup.
> >
> > You had to address each diskette in the pack.  The unit
> > would then pull the appropriate diskette out of the cartridge
> > and read/write it.  Kinda like the 6-Pack CD-Changers.
> >
> 
>      In that case, the main difference between the 5 diskettes in the pack and
> a typical school diskette may have been that the pack drive uses both sides
> plus, maybe, a less wasteful version of Apple DOS. If only one disk (or no
> disk) needs to have DOS, you would have something that looked like nearly an
> 11x improvement in storage vs. a single one-sided diskette. (And, if the pack
> also uses Track 36, you'd have better than 11x storage-- all without doing
> anything very tricky.)
> 
> 
> > Damn, I've only gotten one response on this.  I wonder if
> > I'm the only person with one of these.
>  ....
> 
>      Maybe. At the least it looks like you are one of very few who has one.
> 
> Rubywand