Re: Apple IIgs + 1.44mb PowerMac Drive

["Hellfire" <nospam@dontwantit.net>]

I found that if you disassemble the casing, you can put a superdrive in
place of the original drive. Works great!

    -Matt

"Alastair Boyanich" <boyanich@murdoch.edu.au> wrote in message
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> Hi..I'm trying to get my IIgs running again and discovered that my
> floppy drive's heads are mangled. It appears to have the same plug
> connector of the newer 68k and PPC mac's. So I plugged one in. But
> nothing boots, I get blue screen, whizzing apple and the "Boong!"
> noise. Anyone know if there's a conversion kit you can make? Any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> Ideally it'd be nice to have 1.44mb of storage on a IIgs floppy,
> but I'd be more than happy just to get the thing running again with
> 800k disks.
>
> Alastair Boyanich
>
>
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>                   boyanich@murdoch.edu.au