[Blindapple] My hesitancy in buying a drive.

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

As far as I know, you would have wasted a good bit of money if you'd 
purchased any 3.5 drive for that configuration. The port on the back of 
the drive was for another 5.25 drive. I know there was a special card 
for the IIe to support 3.5 drives, but as far as I know even to this day 
it's not emulated in MAME.

Jayson

On 3/2/2021 12:36 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
>
> Hi listers:
>
> I want to share my early experience and see if I would have made a 
> mistake if I had made a different decision.
>
> When I bought my Apple II e, I got a disk drive with a newer cable, 
> not the old flat ribbon cable which I had been familiar with.  This 
> drive had another cable connection on the back, that looked like I 
> could have chained another drive onto it.
>
> I wanted to use a 3.5” disk, so I called up an Apple dealer in 
> Chattanooga and asked if I could order a Unidisk 3.5” drive.  The guy 
> at the store said I could obtain one for $369, (If I remember 
> correctly).  I figured I could unhook the 5.25 drive and plug the 3.5 
> unidisk in the same port.
>
> If I had bought that drive, would it have even worked at all, given 
> the standard cards I had in my Apple II e?  Would I have wasted almost 
> $400?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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