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Re: I have a IIgs. So now what?
David Empson wrote:
> Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
>
>> Greg Buchner wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>
> That points to it being any of the models Greg mentioned (up to the SE
> or II). A PC and Mac Classic can exchange data using a 1.4M floppy (or
> 720K), and the Classic can also access 400K/800K floppies.
>
>> I can tell you the mystery mac uses the same mouse that the //e does,
>> because I borrowed the mouse for my //e.
>
> That makes it a Mac 128K, 512K, 512KE or Plus.
>
> The original Mac 400K and 800K floppy drives (without eject buttons)
> will work on all Mac models at least up to the Plus, but don't work on
> an Apple II unless you have a Universal Disk Controller. They would only
> work on the Mac SE and later models if they still had the timing signal
> output which is required to control the drive's rotation speed. This is
> unlikely.
>
> The Apple 3.5 Drive works on a IIgs or IIc+ disk port, or on a IIe with
> Universal Disk Controller, or on a SuperDrive card, or on a PC
> Transporter (with a few issues). On the Mac side, it works on the SE, II
> and later models with an external disk port. I'm not sure whether it
> works on a Plus or 512KE, but it won't work on a Mac 128K or 512K.
>
> Can anyone fill in one key detail: does an Apple 3.5 Drive (A9M0106)
> work on a Mac Plus? I suspect it doesn't.
>
I've never had a mac external floppy drive anyway. I've seen a couple of
them really cheap at op-shops and garage sales in the past, but usually
when my wallet has been freshly emptied. Always the way.
I'll have to dig the computer out of the shed one day. It's in a special
padded carrybag with spaces for the keyboard and mouse. I seem to recall
that it may also have the OS built into ROM. Unless I'm mistaking it for a
different one. I had a couple of them at one point.
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