Macs don’t care about this signal, but Apples do. There’s an extra enable signal on the connector that either brings Drive 1 or Drive 2 into the circuit. This was due to the way Apples could daisy chain their disk drives. Apple ] to experiment with some ancient bromide-stained boxes, and the results are interesting to say the least.Īfter pulling out an old //e and IIgs from storage, found his Macintosh Floppy Emulator didn’t work with the Apples. It’s a great piece of hardware for bootstrapping that old Mac you might have sitting around. No, it’s not SCSI the early Apples had a DB-19 connector for connecting 400 and 800kB disk drives.
A while ago, over at Big Mess ‘O Wires created a device that would emulate old Macintosh disk drives, storing all the data on an SD card.
