Re: Apple Disk Drives

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

"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> william strutts <wrstrutts1@home.com> wrote:
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> The Classic II hardly qualifies as a "revised" SE/30 - it loses the
> slot, has no FPU, no colour video support, has half the data bus width
> and has a maximum memory capcity of 10 MB instead of 128 MB.

Granted it is not an SE/30 but it is similar in the fact that it was a
B/W mac in a chassis with 9inch screen, floppy and HD and had a
68030 processor.  It of course lacked on the expansion slot and
on the other specs you mentioned.

It has a slot for a FPU on the motherboard.  Now whether they made
a card to plug in there I don't know.  Is the 10MB limit because the
machine only supports two SIMMS of either 1meg or 4meg density?
The older PC's were this way.  They could technically support more
memory if the hardware would support higher density RAM.

> But yes, it would work with Mac OS 7.6.

I had thought I  had read that somewhere.

> I know that these choices were offered around 7.6.x, but don't recall
> whether they also applied in 7.5.x (probably).  I don't think I've tried
> to format a floppy since I started using 8.x.  :-)

Floppies are rather irrelevant these days as a trip to the local
computer store will tell you.  You have to search for them anymore.
Where once you had a huge selection of types,brands and size,
you now are limited to one or two brands and sizes.

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