Re: UniDisk 3.5" on a //e

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

Randy Shackelford wrote:

> I wouldn't expect an external superdrive to be easier to find than a unidisk.
> When you consider how few were sold to Apple II users and how few Mac users
> could justify the cost back in those days ($350ish) when they had a floppy
> built into their boxes. Factor in how the external floppy port disappeared
> from Macs in '91 as well. I have two unidisks on hand but had to build my
> own external superdrive out of parts.
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> Offsite mail to this host gets nuked.

I bought a couple of superdrive cards and had 2 superdrives hooked up to
each within 2 days. An external superdrive is really easy to come up with.
Went to a second hand store and bought 2 dead compact macs and bought
2 through the Buy & Sell. Opened up 4 external drives, replaced the 800k
drives and thats 4 in one day. I sort of wish I'd bought a controller for my
II+. If you can't find a used drive, new internal ones are pretty cheap
nowadays. Local shop was selling them for less than $50US.


       Wayne