Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to set on cleaning and setting up an Apple //e that I've been > gathering parts for tonight. I was going to use an Apple 5.25 drive card > and a set of apple 5.25 drives(the kind that would work on the IIgs > smartport) but I just found a duodisk drive for $1 with cable today and > I was wondering, do I need a special card for it or will it work with > the same card as the single 5.25 drives? > > I'm also guessing that given how dirty it is externally(or was.. I just > cleaned it up) that I will have to clean it up.. I have a cleaning > diskette here somewhere but I really have no idea as to where that > somewhere is(small room but it's apsolutly as loaded as it can get) so > I'm just wondering, if I'm very carefull would it be ok to clean with a > q-tip and alcohol or should I apsolutely just scour this place for my > cleaning diskette and not take a chance on this? > > -Matthew S. Carpenter > <http://www.thecowsaysmoo.org/superpsycho> > A duo disk will work fine with a Disk ][ controller card as long as it has the correct db 19 port not the ribbon cable. -- si vis pacem, para bellum http://www.appleiiguy.net Apple ][ Forever!
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