Re: 3.5" 800k drives on IIe

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Supertimer wrote:

> Gregory Kleverlaan <gregk@fl.net.au> wrote:
>
> >I have an apple IIe with 5.25" disk drive.
> >I also have a few mac 512ks with 3.5" 800k floppies that seem to have
> >the same connector as the apple 5.25" floppy drive.
>
> Sure.  You need to get a controller card to use 3.5" disk drives,
> however.  The SuperDrive card from Shreeve Systems will
> run BOTH 1.44MB SuperDrives and 800k floppy drives.
>
> The Universal Disk Controller will allow you to run Mac 800k
> drives.
>
> Thus, either of these two cards will do.
>
> >I was wondering. Can I use the 800k mac drive on my apple IIe?
>
> YES!  See above.
>

The SuperDrive card will not run Macintosh 800k drives( Model # M0131)
but work fine with other Apple external 3.5 drives.


     Wayne

forgot, I've never tried the 400k 3.5 drives with the SuperDrive card but I

kinda suspect that they wouldn't work.
The Universal Disk Controller will run the 400k drives as well as the 800k
drives.
Not a logical thing to do but they do look neat.