Re: Humor a new user and answer these Apple //e card questions.

[ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)]

David.White@launchpad.unc.edu (David White) writes ...
>1)  Her principle told her that the drive she's been using is a "Unidisk"
>(although it doesn't say that anywhere on the drive - just says "Apple
>5.25 drive")  Is that correct - are "Apple 5.25 drive" and "Unidisk"
>referring to the same thing?

Unidisk as opposed to the Duodisk.  The latter being two 5.25" drives
in a single box.  But Apple only ever had one kind of 5.25" disk
drives.

>2)  Her principle also told her NOT to get a Disk ][.  Is that also good
>advice?

Probably.  Any Disk ]['s are old, as they preceded the Unidisk.  Might
work anyway, though.  Don't really know.

>3)  Someone offered to sell us a 5.25 drive which had the exact same model
>number on the bottom as the drive she's been bringing home - only problem
>was, our drive has a 19-pin plug and his had a 37 (or 32?) pin plug - what
>kind of disk drive is THAT?  (and is there a way to make it work with our
>19-pin port on the Y-cable?

Hmm.  Might be a variant of the drive for the //e, //c, or //gs.
32 pins?!?  Really??

>4)  If I post a message in a misc.forsale area, what should I ask for?  A
>5.25 Unidisk?  An Apple 5.25 drive for a //e?

Yup.  You might even look at getting a new one.  A+ magazine still
has Apple // ads and info.

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