Re: re 5.25 drive

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) writes...

>Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
>: In article <lampkp-2404981736490001@smpm0-224.itouch.net>,
>:  <lampkp@itouch.net> wrote:
>: >I am thinking of putting a 5.25 drive on a Mac IIsi so that I can download
>: >some Apple2 appl's for an Apple //e. Can this be done?
> 
>:    Nope. Despite *looking* and *fitting* in the drive connector port,
>: the Mac has never had support for Apple II 5.25" drives. [They had
> 
>This group's resident boob and Apple hater has forgotten two facts. First
>is that certain Macs have 5.25 drive support via the Apple //e card. That
>card also runs 8 bit II software. 

    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).

>The other is that there are more Apple made devices than there are 
>connector types, so some are necessarily reused for different devices. 
>He's really grasping at straws when he uses that idiotic reasoning to 
>bash Apple.

    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).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca