Re: Help: Unidisk 5.25

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On 25 Jan 1997, Dave Althoff wrote:

> Randy Shackelford (shack@deimos.frii.com) wrote:
> : In article <32e80dc9.853396@167.152.149.11>,
> : Edhel Iaur, Esq. <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:
> : >On 23 Jan 1997 03:39:23 GMT, biglous@aol.com (BigLouS) wrote:
> : >
> : >>I recently picked up a 5.25 Unidisk. It has a beige case, a colored apple
> : >>logo and a 25 pin DB connector. It's Apple P/N A9M0104. Can someone tell
> : >>me something about it?
> : >
> : >It's the same 140K 5.25" drive as all the other Apple drives are, with
> : >the possible difference of having a DB-25 connector and a daisy-chain
> : >port.
> 
> : More precisely, it's the exact same unit as the grey 5.25 drive, before
> : it was made grey and given a name change when the IIgs came out.
> : -- 
> : Randy Shackelford                                 
> : shack@frii.com                                    
> 
> Waidaminit...I don't have the part numbers in front of me, but I'm a bit
> suspicious.  Are you sure that is a DB-25?  If it is a *DB-19* then
> everyone is absolutely correct; this is an Apple 5.25 Drive.  But wasn't
> there also a beige Apple 5.25" drive designed to connect to Macintoshes
> but designed to read MFM disks?  I think I saw one *once*...
> 
> ]Dave Althoff, ][.

I work at a computer recycling place and we currently have two of
the Apple PC (I think that's the name) drives sitting around and
they have a connector that's a bit larger than a DB-25.  If I 
remember right (I never took too good a look at it), it was more
along the lines of a DB-37 or so.  It's a fairly large connector
that's not easy to confuse with normal smaller ones.

Greg B.

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