Re: Help, please...Need cable or pinouts for Amdek III Compact Floppy 3" drive

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

"macdog" (bigdog128@gmail.com) writes:
> Macdog wrote:
> 
>   Yes I have over a dozen 3" disks already.  More on the way.
> 
>    Michael wrote:
> 
>> WHich ones are those?  I can't remember what kind that drive used,
>> but there were a number of false starts before the 3.5" drive as
>> we know it came out on top.
>>
>> There was a 3" drive with a sleeve like the 5.25" floppies, but it
>> had a metal hub like the 3.5" drives we know.  But I also seem to recall
>> that there was a 3" floppy that had a hard case, which I think is
>> what those drives used.
> 
> These Amdek drives use the hard case 3" CF2 diskette.  These connect
> to an Apple old style 5.25" controller card and the operating system
> sees them as a regular 5.25" disk, even though they are on a 3" disk.
> They are running me about 70.00 per ten pack plus shipping, from the
> Netherlands.  Maybe you know where I can find them for cheaper than
> that.
> 
> Macdog.
> 

They actually made one for the Apple?  That's something I missed, or
perhaps had forgotten.

I haven't a clue where to get the floppies.  About ten years ago, 
the local surplus outlet had boxes of 3" floppies of the kind with
the flexible sleeve and metal hub.  The only time I'd seen them in
person, and obviously a great find if someone who had drives that
actually used them happened to go into that place while they had them.
Oddly, the same store ahd 8" floppies at the same time.

  Micahel