Re: Apple UniDisk 3.5 vs. Apple 3.5

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>In article <5cavjr$1nkg@uni.library.ucla.edu>,
> <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>>The UDC was at least as popular as the disk controllers manufactured by
>>Apple.
>
>I doubt that. I personally have never seen one, nor have I ever known
>anyone with one. When you consider all the //c's and IIgses with built in 
>ports, "disk controllers manufactured by Apple" far outnumber UDCs.
>Not to mention the fact that Apple hardware is more common and easy to come
>by today. It doesn't matter what was common/popular ten or more years ago
>when you're trying to connect up a 3.5 floppy now, now does it? You'll be
>using what you can get or be doing without.

Well, Shreeve's usually has UDCs available and they were built into
Laser 128 series Apple clones.

>
>>You can eject a floppy from a older Mac 800K drive that dosen't have
>>an eject button by using software.  The Apple II Desktop can do this,
>>as can various BASIC and P8 programs (little routines that eject disks),
>>the GS can of course, some CDA's can do so, and a macro for AppleWorks
>>Classic too.
>
>It'd be much easier to use a paper clip than quit an app to run a little
>program to eject a disk. And that's not overly convenient either. I had to
>do it when the eject motor on my Quadra's floppy quit until I swapped a new
>motor off a broken 800K onto it, and it sucked.

On a GS, a trip to the CDA or NDA menu is all that's needed.  :)

-Scott G.