Re: Apple 3.5 & Unidisk

[markj@macconnect.com (Mark Johnson)]

In article <5bqu7d$n5q$1@europa.frii.com>,
shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

><In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.970116012939.26833A-100000@taurus>,
><The Mangler  <dayen@sfsu.edu> wrote:
><>
><>Does anyone by chance know if it's possible to convert a Unidisk into an
><>Apple 3.5 for the GS?
><>
><>I have a 3.5 drive with a bad head and was wondering if I could transfer
><>its parts into a friend's Unidisk.
><
><Now why would you want to turn something fairly scarce and valuable into 
><something common and not so valuable? Especially when you just need to get
><a new internal 800K floppy mech, for which the going price is $10-20, and
><swap it into your nonfunctioning drive.

This is done very eaisly. Remove the Unidisk controller board. It contains
a 6502 and Rom. Then install the apple 3.5 controller which has no CPU and
is about 1/2 the size.