Re: One for the hardcore collectors

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

 bob@bob.us wrote:

>>   From: mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>
>>Unfortunately shipping 28lb of gear from the US->AU is well outside my
>>eBay budget this year, but this auction should raise the eyebrows of
>>the hardcore //c folk somewhat...
>>
>>http://cgi.ebay.com/APPLE-IIc-various-drives_W0QQitemZ230135418267QQihZ013Q
>>
>>There can't be too many of those in the wild....
>
>actually, other than the dual unidisk drive, there's nothing there. the
>other 3.5" drive is an 800k macintosh drive which won't work with the 2c
>neither will the '107' 5.25" drive which is for a 2gs and a 2c+. only the
>external disk 2c will work with the 2c. as well, the 2c itself is pretty
>weathered and yellowed as is the dual drive.

    Interesting. That is the _prototype_ "DuoDisk 3.5" drive for 
the Apple IIc, which of course was never released and presumably 
quite rare. Apple planned to have the DuoDisk and UniDisk in both 
floppy size formats, which is why we have the odd and out of place 
drive named the UniDisk 3.5 (ever wonder why it was called that?).

    The other drive is a prototype UniDisk 5.25, it has the detachable 
cable at the back (there were other pictures of the drive in the 
sellers non-bid auction). The Apple IIc and Macintosh beige 800K
drive are fairly common, although it's possible the IIc itself is a
pre-production unit with beta firmware. 

    The only other DuoDisk 3.5 I've seen is the one in Tony Diaz's 
collection. Unfortunately this particular one is severely and
unevenly yellowed.

Mitchell Spector