As for floppies, I have a set of 5 Apple branded floppy drives in nice beige cases (4 5.25" and 1 3.5" from a IIGS) and all of them have a passthrough port for another drive, but it is pretty difficult to boot with all 5 (takes a while). My old grade school had only those kind of drives, and when all linked together, could run a total of 30 drives. (it was quite a chore to get it working though)
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Clark Martin<[email protected]> wrote: > > Sterling wrote: >> Why does apple do this? >> >> Digikey and several other regular parts stores don't seem to carry a >> DB-19 part. >> >> I want to make an Apple Disk cable, but cannot find the part anywhere. >> >> I need the female version in particular. >> >> Maybe there are cables I can buy that already have the female Db-19 on >> them? >> Is that how these drives daisy chain anyways? Or are all the cables >> male ended with the pins inside? > > It is a unique Apple part. There was the HD20 hard drive which > connected via the floppy port and, IIRC, had a pass through port for > another floppy drive. There may also have been some third party floppy > drives with a pass through port. From what I've heard there is support > for three floppy drives. > > The typical floppy drive only has a male connector. > > You are going to have a difficult time finding a D type 19 pin female > floppy connector (there is no such thing as a DB-19). > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
