Re: apple 2e questions

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Oops - I forgot a few 3.5" drive controllers:

- The "PC Transporter" from Applied Engineering.  When used as an
  Apple disk controller, this supports selected PC-compatible drives (mainly
  the "TransDrives" sold by AE) and the Apple 3.5 Drive (very slowly).

- The "BlueDisk", from a company in Germany whose name eludes me for
  the moment.  This supports PC-compatible disk drives.  It cannot support
  standard Apple II disk drives, or standard Apple II disk formats
  (140K 5.25" or 400K/800K 3.5").  With a high-density 3.5" drive, it will
  be compatible with 1.44MB Mac and ProDOS disks (also with 720K disks,
  which are rather rare on the Apple II).

- A SCSI card in conjunction with a Floptical drive.  This supports PC
  3.5" disk formats (720K, 1.44MB).  Again, it will be compatible with
  1.44MB Mac and ProDOS disks (and 720K).  It doesn't support 400K/800K
  disks.  The Floptical also has its own native 21MB disk format.

There is also at least one much older card that supports PC-compatible
drives.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand