Re: Some questions about Apple II

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4rc3gj$4pn@news00.btx.dtag.de>,
Rainer Fritz <Rainer.Fritz@t-online.de> wrote:
>A few days ago i found an old Apple II.(nice thing :-))  )
>There was a diskcontroller inside with three Ports
>two for the original diskdrives and one witch is marked with shugart
>bus. The Port for  Appledisk works fine but the shugart drive won t
>work. Only a loud clicking noise at the begining.Now the question: Is
>this shugart drive the same as a normal PC 5 1/4 drive (360k or
>1.2MB?) The connector seems to be the same. 

   My gut feeling on this is no, but I've never seen anything official
on this.  [Official, not counting a few oddball Rana clones and such]
Apple II 5.25" drives were always single sided; PC have been pretty
much exclusively double-sided from the start. Further, the controllers
are rather separate beasts since the data is written to disk in very
separate ways by the two systems. If anything, the 360K drives have
the best _chance_ of working, whether that's >5%, I'm not sure.

>The Second question:There was an original Apple graphics tablet
>included with the manual and the controller card but the system disks
>are missing.Any ideas where i can get them?

   According to threads here a while back, those things were pretty
rare, quite possibly because they put out enough radio frequency to
mess with radios a few hundred meters away. Someone with one might
be willing to make you a copy-- ask on comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.

Nathan Mates
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