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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Connecting old Apple II+ drive to Mac LC
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Date: 9 May 91 18:19:10 GMT
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I want to connect an old 5.25" Apple II+ floppy drive, the kind that
uses a RIBBON CABLE, to a Mac LC with an Apple IIe emulator card.

As I understand it, the Apple IIe emulator card has a connector for a
5.25" Apple IIe floppy drive.  This kind of drive does not use a
ribbon cable.  I don't know what cable it does use.

Do I have to buy a new drive?  Or can I use a simple adaptor plug to
convert from ribbon cable to the whatever-it-is connector on the IIe
card?  If the latter, where can I buy it and what do I ask for?

I'm sure this problem must have come up before, when people wanted to
connect II+ floppy drives to IIe computers.  I expect the same
solutions would apply here.  What were those solutions?

E-mail preferred, since probably this is not of general interest.
But it's important to me....

a T d H v A a N n K c S e


-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)  I don't speak for my employer. --