Re: 2E - 3.5" drive question

[John Townsend <utownje@lexis-nexis.com>]

Mark Percival wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, John Townsend <utownje@lexis-nexis.com> wrote:
>
> >I have one drive of yet another variation:  the label on the bottom calls
> >it a "3.5 DrivePlus" but it still has the G7287 model number.  I also have
> >the "FDHD" and "SuperDrive" varieties.  All three variations work the same
> >and have identical mechanisms.  In fact, I think that all of my drives have
> >yellow LEDs, but I don't have them in front of me at the moment.  My
> >suspicion is that Apple's marketers just had a hard time making up their
> >minds what to call the thing.
>
> That's a new one to me.  Is there a copyright date one the bottom?

No, there isn't.  Where the other drives have the copyright date and FCC stuff
printed, this one just has a small metallic sticker with the serial number (in
lieu of the barcoded serial number that the other drives have near the bottom
rear of the drive).  I opened the drive up and didn't see anything on the inside
either.  I also confirmed that it, as well as my two "FDHDs" and one
"SuperDrive", all have yellow LEDs.  I had assumed that the "3.5 DrivePlus" was
older than the other models, but now I'm wondering if it may have been given a
different name (perhaps briefly) for marketing to Apple II users when the 3.5
Drive Controller (note that it was never actually called a "SuperDrive"
controller) was revised to work with HD disks.

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John E. Townsend
Sr. Software Engineer          "Machines should work;
LEXIS-NEXIS                     people should think."
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