Re: Apple Drive III cable

[gbohling@herbie.unl.edu (Tiresias)]

Tiresias (gbohling@herbie.unl.edu) wrote:
>Jon O'Brien (jobrien@ais.net) wrote:
>>I recently got an Apple Disk /// for my Apple ///+ (my how my museum is 
>>growing these days).  The problem is that the drive has a pin-type 
>>adapter and my ///+ has a DB25 disk drive jack.  Does anybody know the 
>>pinout for building an adapter cable or know where I might find one 
>>already assembled?

>I recently got an apple ///+ for my disk ///... well, I have a /// also
>that the disk /// was on.. anyway, when inspecting the internal drive
>on the ///+, I noticed that the Db25 <or 23, or however many pins there
>are> jack is wired to a ribbon cable inside, which leads up to the
>controller board.  On that board it plugs into a port exactly like the
>external port on the ///, which the disk /// ribbon fits into.  I can
>not confirm that these are identical ports though.  There is also a
>second connector on the controller, so I wonder if you could plug the
>disk /// into the second plug, inside the machine, and not have to
>disconnect the external port.
>Anyone know for sure?
>-tiR

Okay, I've completely gutted my ///+ and my ///, as well as my disk ///
in order to explore the posibillities I mentioned, and none work.  The
internal drives in the /// and ///+ are identical, and upon opening up
the disk ///, the internal mechanisms, pc board, etc. are also identical.