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Re: I have a IIgs. So now what?
Greg Buchner wrote:
> In article <45e7d773$0$91154$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
> Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
>
>> Jon wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Anyway, I tried plugging an old mac 3.5 external drive in the IIGS.
>> > It seems to work but I don't have any low density disks to try, and
>> > taping the hole of a HD disk doesn't work.
>> Using HD can be hit and miss. Taping over the hole can work. Except
>> sometimes it may take five or six full formats. I used them in a mac plus
>> (400k internal drive).
>
> The Mac Plus has an 800K internal drive. The only Macs with 400K drives
> were the original Macintosh (128k) and the Macintosh 512k. The Mac
> Plus, the 512ke, the SE and the Mac II all originally shipped with 800K
> drives. All Mac after that up until the iMac shipped with 1.4M drives.
Hm. I really need to get that memory leak fixed. It must be a Mac 512k then.
I remember having to do a double shuffle of PC to mac classic to mystery mac
to make a system disk set.
I can tell you the mystery mac uses the same mouse that the //e does,
because I borrowed the mouse for my //e.
Or perhaps I'm getting two different machines confused... Hm.
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