Re: Apple IIgs + 1.44mb PowerMac Drive

["Hellfire" <nospam@dontwantit.net>]

As long as the AE drive is not proprietary on the inside, it should work.
The DIN-19 connector on the Apple II disk drives basically runs straight to
a standard 20-pin Apple floppy connector, so if AE did the same thing it'll
work.

    -Rergards, Matt

"SlickRCBD" <Sisko@Celestial.Temple.org> wrote in message
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> In article <3ce14485$1@news.svn.net>, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
wrote:
>
> > "Alastair Boyanich" <boyanich@murdoch.edu.au> wrote in message
> > 3CE17800.9307887F@murdoch.edu.au">news:3CE17800.9307887F@murdoch.edu.au...
> > > Hellfire wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I found that if you disassemble the casing, you can put a superdrive
in
> > > > place of the original drive. Works great!
> > > >
> > > >     -Matt
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hellfire:
> > >
> > > I've tried this..already. Just the Apple won't accept it. Hmm. Did you
> > modify
> > > the drive at all for the insert notifyer?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Your floppy drive is too new. You need an older one from an 030 or 040
Mac.
> > As others have said, it has to be the type that sucks the disk in, not
the
> > kind where you push the disk all the way in and it clicks into place.
As
> > others have said, when you do find the right type of drive,  it will
only
> > work as an 800K drive with the built-in IIgs floppy port.
> > -Paul
> On a related note, would it be possible to put the 3.5" drive from a
> Macintosh SE or Classic (I don't remember off-hand which it was salvaged
> from) inside the case of a nonfunctional AE 3.5" 800k drive and use it on
> a IIGS?
>
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