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

["Silicon Sam" <SiliconSam@gmail.com>]

On Mar 23, 10:31 am, e...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote:
> "macdog" (bigdog...@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

  Yes, they made one for the Apple.  I had a customer that used one on
his ][+.  The floppies, or "firmies", are hard cased, and are made
with 2 sides.  Look like miniature MO cartridges actually.  I hadn't
had but one customer use them, and he's long since gone, and this was
back in '83 or so.

Raymond