[Blindapple] My hesitancy in buying a drive.

[Tiny Puppy-butchb]

I think you could have certainly swapped drives and maybe even dazy chained them.  I have a separate card in my 2 e for 3.5 drives and the original card with flat cables in slot six.  

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Joseph Norton 
To: blindapple at bluegrasspals.com 
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2021 10:36 PM
Subject: [Blindapple] My hesitancy in buying a drive.


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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