Re: Apple UniDisk 3.5 vs. Apple 3.5

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

In article <5c9e6h$hmd@lynx.unm.edu>,
stephen e buggie <buggie@enzu.unm.edu> wrote:
>See my article, HACKING PLATINUM: MAC TO APPLE II
>
>Its in the Winter 1997 issue of II ALIVE.   Its on transplanting Mac 800K 
>drive mechanisms into EITHER the platinum Apple 3.5 drive OR the Unidisk 
>3.5 drive casing.   IT WORKS, and the front panel eject button WORKS and 
>the red LED WORKS.

Not to mention those of use who have built a "poor man's superdrive" by 
swapping a superdrive mech into a grey 800K enclosure. That works great, and
having a red in use light instead of amber is the only obvious difference.

Years ago, I fixed my broken unidisk by swapping in an 800K mech I got from a
Mac person. It cost me $20 then, which I thought was great. Nowadays I can
name at least one person who advertises 800K mechs for $10.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com