Re: Laser 128 external floppy 5 1/4

[johng@laol.net (John H. Guillory)]

On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:38:49 GMT, god23@heaven.org (Bart) wrote:

>As the topic indicates: I have one.  It is an external that uses the 
>propiritary 19 pin Apple floppy plug found on IIc s and also on the Mac Plus. 
>I also have a real Apple 3 1/2 external floppy (and a HD20 also with this 
>plug).   My question: are these  the 2 floppy drives)  interchangable?  
I've got the same drive, and hooked it up to my Apple IIGS (not
knowing any better ;-)  ) and it worked flawlessley.... The only
problem with using it is as follows:  The type of drive that the Laser
128 uses is slower than a GS's 5 1/4" (which I have as well)  and the
Laser's disk drive has what I find annoying as hell - That stupid
adjustment on the bottom of the drive to set the speed...  Beyond
that, the only thing else I can think of is like myself, you'll find
little use for the 5 1/4" once you convert any disk you have to 3
1/2", or after you finish converting files you downloaded from the net
to 5 1/4" so that you can copy them to 3 1/2" disk or a hard drive...
But at least in my case, the 5 1/4" drives are good for raising the 3
1/2" drives up a few inches to make them easier to get to ;-).