Re: Hardware question.

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

SlickRCBD wrote:
> 
> I and a friend were looking through some of our collective junk, and we
> came accross two things that we're wondering if it's possible to combine
> them into a useful item.
> 
> I have a broken external A&E 3.5" 800K drive, and he has a working
> internal AppleDisk 800K drive from a Macintosh SE/30, but no computer
> capable of housing it. Is it possible to put the internal drive in the A&E
> case and make it a working external drive that we could with either his
> old Performa 405 or my Apple IIGS?, or would it be too difficult for two
> guys with little hardware expereince beyond installing cards, RAM chips, &
> swapping drives from internal bays (I've done macs, he's done PCs, both
> DOS & Windows era machines)?
> 
> Seems a shame to have these peices of hardware laying around useless when
> we could put them to work.

I'm afraid not. If your AE drive is like mine the drive mechanism itself
has 
a 34 pin connector while Apple drive mechanisms use 20 pin connectors.

What's the problem with the AE drive?

	Wayne