[Blindapple] My hesitancy in buying a drive.

[Tiny Puppy-butchb]

I may have been wrong in my previous note.  I do know on my 2 c, it had an internal 5.5, and I could either hook a 3.5 or 5.5 drive for the second drive with the drive connector.  
As I said, I do have separate control cards in my 2 e. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ed Eastman 
To: Blind Apple Discussions 
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2021 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindapple] My hesitancy in buying a drive.


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:


   
  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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