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Re: I have a IIgs. So now what?



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.

Greg B.

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