Re: More floppy questions

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Nailslover" <nailslover@aol.com> wrote in message
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> hi everyone,
>
> i just have one more question about the apple external floppy drives.
>
> i would like to know what model mac's are capible of using the external
drives.
>  (both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2).

Apple 5.25 drives with 19-pin connectors can be used on any Apple II
with the appropriate controller card.  Same goes with the old Disk II's
assuming you have the old style controller.  The Apple 3.5 drives were
only supported on the IIgs from what I understand unless you have the
Unidisk 3.5 drives/Liron card or the Superdrive controller card.

> i have a powermac 7500 (souped up a bit), powermac 6200 (peice of s***),
> powermac 7200, and a few assorted really old all in one style macs.  the
really
> old macs i got mainly as collector items, (1 se, 1 mac plus, and 1 orignal
mac
> 512k).  the really old macs i have never used as i dont' thin kthey have
hard
> drives, but i am willing to try.  which of my macs would connect to those
> extneral floppy drives?.  my 7500 is connected to my ethernet network for
> downloading files, where none of the other macs are hooked up to the
network.

Any of them as long as they have the 19-pin connector for external
floppies on the computer.  However, NEVER use an Apple 5.25
drive on any Mac since I am told it will blow out the IWM controller.
There are a few third party 5.25 drives that will work on a Mac but
none of the Apple brand drives worked.

As far as your old Macs, the Mac SE came in two configurations as far
as I recall. You had the dual floppy drive configuration or the floppy
drive with an internal hard drive.  If  you have a dual drive, you can
remove the second floppy and replace it with a hard drive.  The Mac
Plus has an external SCSI port so that you could add an external
SCSI Hard Drive or CD-ROM.  The Mac 512K used a flunky
HD that connected to the floppy drive port.  I wouldn't think that
they are too common these days.  You can still get external SCSI
drives though. All you would need is a case/power supply and a
SCSI HD.  If it is non-Apple though, you would need a third party
disk formatter since the Apple HD Tools only worked with their
drives.  You can also use this setup on a Mac SE too since it still
maintained the external SCSI port.

> thanks again
> bo
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