Re: Identifying some cards

["michaelmaginnis@yahoo.com" <Michael Maginnis>]

On 14 Feb 2004 00:25:40 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>Michael Maginnis wrote:
>
>>Scott Alfter wrote:
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>>> Sounds like the drive you'd use with a PC Transporter...a run-of-the-mill
>>> 5.25" DSDD drive that uses MFM and puts 360K on a disk.  The mechanism, if
>>> removed from its case, should work with any x86 box (I haven't run across
>>> one yet that doesn't have a floppy controller on it).  On a II, I would
>>> think a BlueDisk (?) would be able to use it as well, but it's not a Disk
>>> II-compatible device.
>>
>>Hmm.  Wonder why it was plugged into a standard Disk II controller. 
>>Maybe the thrift store just pieced it together to look "good" for the 
>>display, without bothering to test it.
>
>I hope it didn't damage your disk port--ISTR that some of these disks
>were electrically incompatible with the Apple disk port...  ;-(
>
>-michael
>
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Uh oh.  The IIgs Smart Port seems to have survived, though the FDD
itself seems useless; doesn't work on a PC either.

- Mike

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Apple II user since 1983
"Fighting the frizzies at eleven"
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Apple II user since 1983
"Fighting the frizzies at eleven"
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