binder@fizbin.DEC.COM ("Put it on my tab.") (03/20/87)
> I am in the process of looking for a disk drive for my apple IIe > that can store more the 128k. I would like to go to something around > 400k or so k. I am looking for suggestions, comments, and experencies. > Any help will be very helpfull. Please reply E-Mail. > > afn@k.cc.purdue.edu I haven't actually used one, but you might want to look at the 800K 3-1/2 inch drives sold by Leading Edge (the Laser 128 people). They use a universal disk controller (also Leading Edge) that will drive two 5-1/4 floppies, two 3-1/2 floppies (either 400K or 800K) or one of each. About $300 will get you the card and one 3-1/2 drive. ProDOS will boot from these drives, but DOS 3.3 will not, I believe. Cheers, Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat) DEC Enet: FIZBIN::BINDER UUCP: { decvax, allegra, ucbvax... }!decwrl!fizbin.dec.com!binder ARPA: binder%fizbin.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
halp@batcomputer.UUCP (03/26/87)
Summary:Try Apple Unidisk 3.5 Sender:halp@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu Followup-To:DickBinder In article <8703192332.AA07621@decwrl.dec.com> binder@fizbin.DEC.COM ("Put it on my tab.") writes: >> I am in the process of looking for a disk drive for my apple IIe >> that can store more the 128k. I would like to go to something around >> 400k or so k. I am looking for suggestions, comments, and experencies. >> Any help will be very helpfull. Please reply E-Mail. >> >> afn@k.cc.purdue.edu I am using Apple Unidisk on my ][c and ][e. Acquired them a few weeks ago, via Apple Educational Discound program purchase. The are very good, fast, easy to use, and can, if necessary, be serviced by local Apple people. I should have been more specific. It's Unidisk 3.5. Provides 800K. By the way, I just tried ProLink, a program that allows a Macintosh with a 800k 3.5 in drive to read Apple ][ 3.5" text (ASCII) files written under ProDos (e.g., AppleWorks), and allows Mac text files to be written to a 800k disk that the Apple ][ can read. It works well, and easily, in both directions. Bruce P. Halpern >
ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (04/02/87)
When this discussion about 3.5 inch drives got started several people recommended the Universal Disk controller card and the 3.5's from Central Point Software. Somewhere along the line someone said that the UDC did not fit in the //gs case. I tried this out and my UDC fits fine. Has anyone else had problems? Was there an older model of this card that didn't fit? My impression of the //gs case was that it was larger than the //e case (no slope in front). The only complaint I've heard is that there is more room behind the card, between the back edge of the card and the back of the case. This evidently allows some small cards like parallel printer cards to be inserted backwards, ie with the chips facing the power supply. This could be a problem for new users. Anyone had such a problem or heard of one like this? Rick Fincher ranger@ecsvax all that disclaimer stuff...
g-mccann@GUMBY.WISC.EDU.UUCP (04/03/87)
(More accurately, Re: Cards that don't fit the IIgs) I have a PCPI Applicard, which does fit in the IIgs case, but ever so tightly. I can close the lid, but doing so causes the top of the case to bulge upward slightly. Consequently, I don't keep the Applicard in the machine at all - I put it in only when I need CP/M (which, fortunately, isn't often) and while it's in I leave the top off. Just my two cent's worth..... Lester McCann g-mccann@gumby.wisc.edu