Re: Help: Unidisk 5.25

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5cemvu$65b@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> 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.
>
>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*...

That's SE era so I'd figure it's grey. Also I recall seeing either a drive
or a nubus card of this type, and I recall it looking like a centronics
connector, kinda like SCSI, not a D sub. I think the original poster is
off on his pin count. Finally, if it says unidisk on the bottom, then it
really is the same as the grey 5.25.

>But maybe I'm suffering from faulty memory.  Also, if the drive in
>question has a DB-19 connector on the cable but lacks a daisy-chain port,
>then it is probably a drive for a IIc.  It will work with other ]['s, but
>for obvious reasons would have to be the last drive in the chain.

Disk IIc's are white tho.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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