hansley@cscosl.ncsu.edu (Bill Hansley) (09/02/89)
Does anyone have a Novation AppleCat II or a Disk II controller card that they want to unload? I just got a II+ and a drive, and I;m trying to make it a little more usable. (Although tape isn't as bad as I thought!) Thanks, Bill (hansley@cscosl.ncsu.edu) (hansley@eceugs.ncsu.edu)
greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender) (09/05/89)
Well its not exactly a disk II card, but I have a Central Point UDC card I'd let go for $50. A question for II+ owners, can a UDC be used on a II+? Also, over the summer I picked up a Shugart 5 Meg hard drive, but Shugart has been less than helpful about supplying me with information on it. The best the offered to do was to sell me the manual for a similar drive for $50. For 5 Megs it is not worth it. Does anyone else have some information that might help? Its a model SA1002, a real dinosaur, so I don't want to spend much getting it to work. -- --- Michael J Pender Jr Box 1942 c/o W.P.I. I wrote SHELL and Daemon, greyelf@wpi.bitnet 100 Institute Rd. send bug reports, suggestions, greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu Worcester, Ma 01609 checks to me.
brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) (09/08/89)
In article <3829@wpi.wpi.edu> greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender) writes: >Well its not exactly a disk II card, but I have a Central Point UDC card >I'd let go for $50. > >A question for II+ owners, can a UDC be used on a II+? ONLY if the II+ has a 65C02 installed, not a W65C802 or the original 6502. This statement is based on the 6502 specification, the use of the RDY signal by the UDC, the Laser representative I talked to, and my own observations. Actually, Laser does not support the Plus with their UDC, but it will work with a 65C02 (around $8.00 from JameCo) installed - at least it does on mine. Some of the regular readers of comp.sys.apple may remember my complaints about the UDC in combination with the TransWarp and/or C802, BUT I have no disk errors at all with the 65C02 at normal speed. If you don't have a TransWarp, or the desire to use the W65C802 (around $17.50 from WDC), then I highly recommend the UDC in combination with the Apple 3.5 Drive, which is 6.4 times faster than an External Mac 800K drive or the various Laser 800K drives (which are basically clones of the older Ext Mac 800K) when they are hooked up to the UDC. The 6.4 times speed factor was measured by timing a Copy II Plus disk verify of all 1600 blocks on both Apple 3.5 disk drive models. Brian Willoughby UUCP: ...!{tikal, sun, uunet, elwood}!microsoft!brianw InterNet: microsoft!brianw@uunet.UU.NET or: microsoft!brianw@Sun.COM Bitnet brianw@microsoft.UUCP
mann@inmet (09/09/89)
/* Written 11:49 pm Sep 1, 1989 by hansley@cscosl.ncsu.edu.UUCP in inmet:comp.sys.apple */ /* ---------- "WANTED - AppleCat II & Disk II Card" ---------- */ Does anyone have a Novation AppleCat II or a Disk II controller card that they want to unload? I just got a II+ and a drive, and I;m trying to make it a little more usable. (Although tape isn't as bad as I thought!) Thanks, Bill (hansley@cscosl.ncsu.edu) (hansley@eceugs.ncsu.edu) /* End of text from inmet:comp.sys.apple */