<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I would suggest the same thing and worse. The 3.5” controller card would be needed in a different slot, normally people used slot 5.<div><br></div><div>You can destroy perfectly good drives and/or controller cards by plugging the wrong type in. I forget what blows up what.</div><div><br></div><div>-Ed</div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent with the help of a few thousand million easily influenced electrons.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 2, 2021, at 12:06 AM, Jayson Smith <jaybird@bluegrasspals.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">As far as I know, you would have wasted
a good bit of money if you'd purchased any 3.5 drive for that
configuration. The port on the back of the drive was for another
5.25 drive. I know there was a special card for the IIe to support
3.5 drives, but as far as I know even to this day it's not
emulated in MAME.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/2/2021 12:36 AM, Joseph Norton
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi listers:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I want to share my early experience and see
if I would have made a mistake if I had made a different
decision.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I bought my Apple II e, I got a disk
drive with a newer cable, not the old flat ribbon cable which
I had been familiar with. This drive had another cable
connection on the back, that looked like I could have chained
another drive onto it.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wanted to use a 3.5” disk, so I called up
an Apple dealer in Chattanooga and asked if I could order a
Unidisk 3.5” drive. The guy at the store said I could obtain
one for $369, (If I remember correctly). I figured I could
unhook the 5.25 drive and plug the 3.5 unidisk in the same
port.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I had bought that drive, would it have
even worked at all, given the standard cards I had in my Apple
II e? Would I have wasted almost $400?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!</p>
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