Re: Remember? Apple IIe Disk Cartridge Drive.

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

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