[Blindapple] My hesitancy in buying a drive.

[Ed Eastman]

I would suggest the same thing and worse.  The 3.5” controller card would be needed in a different slot, normally people used slot 5.

You can destroy perfectly good drives and/or  controller cards by plugging the wrong type in.  I forget what blows up what.

-Ed

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> On Mar 2, 2021, at 12:06 AM, Jayson Smith <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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> 
> 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
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> On 3/2/2021 12:36 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
>> Hi listers:
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>> I want to share my early experience and see if I would have made a mistake if I had made a different decision.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> Thanks!
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