klussier@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Kevin Lussier) (10/10/89)
(I think it's) Kennect adapter to transfrom an 800k drive to a high denstiy drive. Is this right? Is it for external only or internal also? Please mail replys to me. Thanks, Kevin Lussier -- klussier@rodan.acs.syr.edu | 'Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane, klussier@sunrise.acs.syr.edu | it's Superman!'
marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) (10/10/89)
In article <976@rodan.acs.syr.edu> klussier@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Kevin Lussier) writes: >(I think it's) Kennect adapter to transfrom an 800k drive to a high denstiy >drive. Is this right? Is it for external only or internal also? Kennect has an "adapter" (Rapport) that connects to the floppy disk port on the Macintosh Plus, SE, etc. If you hook up a regular Apple (third party drives don't work as well, or at all) 800K drive, the software+adapter allows you to read and write 800K, 400K, and IBM 720K disks. You can format the 3 1/2" disks using 400 and 800K formats, but not the 720K one. It also provides a special format (that can only be read on drives hooked up to the "Rapport" adapter) that allows you to put 1.2mb on a normal 800K floppy disk. Also, if you have the Rapport hooked up, you can read (but not write to) 720K disks in the internal 800K drive. Kennect also sells a 1.44mb drive; using that you can read, write, and format 400K, 720K, 800K, and 1.2mb (their special) on a DSDD 3 1/2" disk and format 1.44mb, and a higher density (special) 2.4mb on a DSHD disk. If you have any more questions, I'd be happy to answer them. I wrote all of the Macintosh software for that product, before I came to Apple. I believe their list for the Rapport adapter is $295, and the 1.44mb drive is $495 (I don't have any idea what its discounted to, though). There also was a review of it in the July MacUser. Mark