Re: 3.5 drive A9M0106 on Apple II

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Mirko" <mirko@yack.com> wrote:

>"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
>news:igJie.1741$5Z1.1064@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
>> "Mirko" <mirko@yack.com> wrote in message
>> news:d6fmmi$mb5$1@newsread.albacom.net...
>>
>>> What card has to be used on an Apple II-IIe to connect a 3.5 drive ? Is
>>> there an Apple 'special' adapter for 800 k disk ?
>>> I suppose I can't use 'standard' 5.25 disk II adapters (even those with
>>> db
>>> connector...)
>>
>> Right, you need either a "Liron" card or the Apple 3.5 "superdrive"
>> controller or a Universal Disk Controller....
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80075&item=5775769961&rd=1
>
>Thanks Sean,
>
>that's what I need,  but I'll wait for more 'readable' prices !
>Looking at the description, that's what I call a 'proportional' font (yeah,
>proportional to the price of the items sold..) ;-)

    Here's an auction for (what appears to be) a Laser Universal Disk
Controller. The advantage is it works with standard Macintosh 3.5 
drives (i.e. dirt cheap or free) as well as 5.25 floppy drives.

You can tell it's the older revision by the length of the card:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80286&item=5198287839&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Mitchell Spector