Re: 3.5 drive A9M0106 on Apple II

["Mirko" <mirko@yack.com>]

Thanks Mitch,

now it's all very clear

Mirko

"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio 
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> "Mirko" <mirko@yack.com> wrote:
>
>>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...)
>>
>>I'm asking this because here in Italy from 1986 on, it never appeared such 
>>a
>>card on Apple Catalogs (probably it was never imported)
>
>    There are basically 4 major options for connecting up a 3.5 floppy 
> drive:
>
> - Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card
> Works with: Apple UniDisk 3.5, Apple 3.5 and Apple SuperDrive (1.44M)
>
> - Apple 3.5 Floppy Interface Card (aka "Liron")
> Works with: Apple UniDisk 3.5
>
> - Laser Universal Disk Controller
> Works with: Apple UniDisk 3.5, Apple 3.5, beige Macintosh 400K (M130)
> and Macintosh 800K (M131), Apple 5.25 and compatibles.
>
> - SHH BlueDisk Card
> Works with: IBM PC 3.5 drives (720K, 1.44M, 2.88M) and 5.25 drives
> (360K and 1.2M). Will not recognize Apple GCR formatted disks.
>
>    There are some more obscure options too, like using the AE 
> PC-Transporter
> card as a floppy controller, or older, rarer and lesser known cards that 
> were
> on the market in the early 80's.
>
>    There are several drawbacks with the Liron and BlueDisk, such as the
> "intelligent" UniDisk 3.5 operating at half the speed of an Apple 3.5 
> drive.
> Looking at the BlueDisk, the floppy drives will need their own power 
> source
> and cannot read or write Apple formatted floppies. For that reason I would
> recommend either of the other two controllers.
>
> Mitchell Spector
>
>