More drives for the project

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Feb 16 05:38:39 2002

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Tony Duell wrote:

> > Apple PC 5.25 Drive (DC-37) - was this for connecting to a PC or a special
> > card in the Mac?
>
> I think the latter, to allow a Mac to read/write PC disks. I have an
> Apple book on designing add-on cards for the Mac, and one of the design
> examples is the PC-compatible disk controller. It uses a 765 chip in the
> obvious way.

That's what I thought but the DC-37 connector threw me off.

> I am not sure if that card was ever a commerical product, but something
> similar might have been,

There's gotta be an interface card to go with the drive.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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