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From: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Lookin for an 800K drive.
Message-ID: <8442@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 90 05:39:05 GMT
References: <17831@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <17831@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> acsu.buffalo.edu!planck!wiles%hercules writes:
>
>I'm thinking about taking the plunge and picking up a 800K, 3.5''
>drive and I need some basic information...
>Apple will sell me a first drive for my //e (enhanced) for about $500.
>With it I get a UniDisk 3.5, and Apple II Accessory Kit, and Catalyst
>3.0.

I don't know what the accessory kit is all about, but $500 is more than
I'd pay for a 3.5 inch drive. 

You didn't say if you have a IIe or IIc.  I have a laser 128ex, but
my last machine was a laser 128, one of the older ones, without
the 3.5 controller card built in.  I bought a 3.5 inch drive and
controller card from Laser for about $225 total.  They don't sell them
direct anymore, but they shouldn't be too much more expensive.  

The drive is a standard mac compatible, but not quite as fast as the
Unidisk apparently.  The drive supposedly works just ducky on a 
GS, but I don't imagine it would fare well with a Unidisk controller card.

The UDC/Laser drive pair does provide a much cheaper alternative to 
the apple setup, if you don't have a IIc.  As I understand it, if
you have a IIc, you have to have the new roms, and can only use the
Unidisk drive.

I think Catalyst has something to do with transporting appleworks to
3.5 inch disks.