Re: IIGS drive + Pmac 1.44mb drive

["David Chiu" <none@nowhere.org>]

"Alastair Boyanich" <boyanich@murdoch.edu.au> wrote in message
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> It's mangled. Heads were bent. :( I've tried putting a power mac 1.44mb
> drive in it and hoping it'd work as a 800k, but nada. Is it possible to
> get it to work by modification?

Mac has two different types of 1.44mb drives; auto insert (suck the disk in
by itself) and manual insert (you have to push it all the way in.) Auto
insert drives are the ones you want to replace dead drives with. I believe
there should still be plenty on eB/Pay for under $10.

> My old clunker has 512kb ram. Is it possible to modify it to accept
> more? I've seen people discussing scsi drives. Is it impossible to track
> down a controller? What would something cost?