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- Fred Salerno (salernof@gate.net) wrote:
- : At work, we have many "leftover" apple parts.
-
- : One of them is something called "Unidisk 3.5"
- : Its apple's external 3.5 inch 720k drive, but im not sure if its for an
- : Apple2e or early macs. (Model no. A2M2053).
-
- : It has a 19 pin cable on it, and also a 19pin socket on its back, no power
- : outlet, but the drive ejects electrically and has the "paperclip hole".
-
- : If someone could hack these into parallel or serial drives, maybe a PC
- : could be used to transfer the contents of low-density disks.
-
- : All of this to read a 720k disk is hardly worth the effort, but it poses
- : a great challenge.
-
- I'm an old apple person myself, and the Unidisk 3.5 drives were used on
- apple2e's and 2c's. As far as i'm aware, all virtually all macs and 2gs's
- used the Apple 3.5, but it doesn't matter since the old is compatible with
- the new.
-
- Last year I remember reading about the Virtual GS emulator project. One of
- the guys on the team designed a parallel port drive adaptor for apple //
- drives. If i can dig up the info, i'll post it to the newsgroup.
-
- -matt
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- Matt(hew) Jenkins. 2nd yr. Computer Science (RMIT Bundoora)
- email: mdj@{arcadia|yallara}.cs.rmit.edu.au
- Running DOS 6.2, Linux 1.2.8 on a 486/100/12/540
- I like: Toranas, Beer, and Surfing the Net.
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