Re: Using Apple ][ 5 1/4 " disks with an older Mac IICi

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Ruud Dingemans" <rtech@home.nl> wrote in message
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> Paul Grammens wrote:
>
> (re: IIe cards)
>
> > Interesting. Here they are fairly common because schools bought zillions
of
> > them.
>
> Wanna send me a couple then?    ;)
>

I only have two of them myself. It should be possible to find them in
quantity, some place that strips LC's which are being junked. I think they
go for $25 or so, with the cable. That can be hard to find, it gets
separated from the card. Try ebay, or maybe Lance Timco:

http://www.timco-computers.com/

He doesn't list them, but I bet he's got them or can get them in quantity.

What I could sell you is a Color Classic upgraded to a "Mystic". That's a 33
mhz 040 motherbd, instead of the stock 16 mhz 030.. I have two of them, both
with IIe cards, so I really should sell one off.

They are cool toys. A IIe with SCSI hard disk and 3.5 and 5.25" drives, and
joystick! An 030 Mac (slip in the original mother bd, takes seconds.). An
040 Mac. DOS/Windows emulation!  It's four computers in one!  All that and a
sharp little Sony Trinitron screen, small footprint, and integral carrying
handle. If only they had made a IIgs card... it could have been 5 computers
in 1!

It's one of my favorites...
-Paul