Re: First Impressions of "iMAC"

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "MM" == Mike Morton <ak_dragon@hotmail.com> writes:

 MM> It looked cool, but the mouse was too small and there is no way
 MM> to get data off of it.  They should have just charged $1349 for
 MM> it and thrown in a SuperDrive.  BTW, I have heard that the
 MM> SuperDrive cannot read or write 800k or 400k disk, is this true?

There are known problems with newer SuperDrives found in PowerMacs in
which 800k data written by the newer (read: cheaper) drives not being
able to be read by older 800k devices.

You might want to find a dead old Mac and swap them out.  I have an
old Mac Classic II that does my Internet <> IIgs transfers for me.

cfs
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