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From: samt@pro-europa.cts.com (Sam Theis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Lookin for an 800K drive.
Message-ID: <1586@crash.cts.com>
Date: 20 Feb 90 10:56:35 GMT
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Dale Wiles writes:

>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.

>First question: What's in the accessory kit? I can buy it alone for
>$69. Is it worth it? (I think it has the controller card in it.)

>Next: What is Catalyst 3.0 and why do I want it?


 
The accessory kit includes the controller card and a Systems Utility Disk. 
You need a UniDisk controller card, so if you don't have one from somewhere
else, you will have to buy the accessory kit.
 
Catalyst 3.0 is an old and mostly obsolete desktop-style program launcher.  If
it comes free OK, but I wouldn't pay extra for it today.  (I did back when the
UniDisk 3.5 first came out in '85 or so, but only used Catalyst for a few
months).

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