SE 5.25 Floppy Drive

#1 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 - 05:36 68kMLA

Anyone have one of these or use it? I don't ever recall it.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2179

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=10314

Did the card come with the floppy drive A9M0110?

Thanks!

#2 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 - 06:10 68kMLA

I have the drive, but no card. :-(

There were two cards: One for the SE PDS, one NuBus. They came out at the same time (or very soon after) the SE and Macintosh II came out.

*ALL* they do is read 360 KB and 1.2 MB PC formatted floppy disks. It can *NOT* read Apple II formatted disks. (From what I understand.)

#3 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 - 07:00 68kMLA

I have a Mac SE with that card and floppy drive

#4 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 - 15:20 68kMLA

I have a Mac SE with that card and floppy drive

Does it read and write 1.2MB floppies or does it just read and write 360 K floppies?

#5 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 - 20:22 68kMLA

only 360k, (tried with System 6.0.3 and Apple File Exchange application v1.0.1)

#6 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 - 20:53 68kMLA

The two Apple cards for the 5.25" drive are very limited. They won't work in a Mac with ROMs that support a 1.4MB SuperDrive, for example. AST and Orange Micro also supported the drive on early DOS cards.