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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: UniDisk or SmartPort on a card?
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Date: 9 Apr 89 05:25:07 GMT
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ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>In article <28208@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>>In article <1190@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) writes:
>>The reason the UniDisk doesn't work on IIe and II+ computers is really simple:
>>There's no interface card for it (from Apple).  The ...
>>... card simply doesn't have the firmware (and maybe not the hardware)
>>to run the Apple 3.5 Drive, mainly since the card was released two years before
>>the drive was.
>400 and 800K Mac Drives were around before this, of course, but Apple 
>apparently hadn't fully committed to the maximal peripheral sharing strategy 
>yet.
>
>I think that a software solution exists, though.

Beg pardon?  I didn't notice the start of this conversation, but it seems that
the terms "UniDisk" and "Apple 3.5" are being confused.  In particular, the
statement "The reason the UniDisk doesn't work on the IIe and II+ computers
is really simple..." is confusing, since I had two UniDisk 3.5 drives hooked
up to my old Apple //e, using an interface card from Apple.  I agree with the
statement that the "...card simply doesn't have the firmware ... to run the
Apple 3.5 Drive", however.

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