Re: re 5.25 drive

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

:     Speaking of the (PDS slot) Apple IIe Card and (platinum) Apple 5.25 
: drive, does Apple still manufacture, sell or support these items? I was
: just curious if they're still available on the price list. From what I
: can tell, they were the last traces of the Apple II (unless you count
: the ImageWriter II, which they are/were still manufacturing).

Pretty unlikely that they're on the price list still. No Pmacs use the
LC style PDS so no Macs which support the //e card have come out in four
plus years.

:     The only connector type which Apple really goofed up on is the
: DB15 female port. Not only was the connector used on the Apple IIgs,
: Apple IIc/IIc+, Apple III/III+ and Macintosh--which all had totally
: incompatible video output--but in most cases the same "RGB" icon was
: placed over the port. If your not familiar with Apple products, it
: would be very easy to confuse what monitors can plug into what
: computer. The GS port was NTSC-freq analog RGB, the III was digital
: RGB, the Mac VGA-freq analog RGB and the IIc wasn't even an RGB
: port at all (merely a video expansion port).

It helps to follow the rule of thumb not to try to use stuff which aren't
of the same vintage or weren't sold together as a system.
--
Offsite mail to this host gets nuked.