Re: //e 5.25" drives & MAC

[misc176@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Philip Lamb)]

chngai@cs.cuhk.hk (Ngai Chi Ho) writes:
> Greg Felling aka Fletch wrote:
> :~) Is it possible to use those old 5.25" drives with my 
> :~) mac (an LC running system7.1). 

> If you have Apple IIe card installed, and your drives are the grey ones
> (the manual says that, I think you can't use the black ones), you can
> get the files.
> 

You can use the old 20-pin drives, get your local IIE repair man to make up a
20 pin - 19 pin converter. Like Ngai says though, you need the Apple IIE card
to run these!

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