Re: First Impressions of "iMAC"

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Charles Stephens (devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com) wrote:

:  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.

Known by whom? It isn't a new floppy drive thing. My 840av with an old
fashioned Sony floppy has troubles sometimes. There's an article in the TIL
about the problem, but some people follow the Nathan paradigm of blaming
evil Apple for every little problem instead of going by real info.

: 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.

Swap what out? Floppy mechs? There is no internal floppy in an iMac ya know.
I wouldn't hold out much hope for the third party USB based floppy drives
to work with 400K and 800K disks. I'd say 720K, 1.4 mb, and 120 mb will be
all they'll do. You see, iMacs aren't intended for people who need floppy 
drives. It's the "information appliance" Jobs wanted the first Mac to be.
I.e. it's made for idiots.
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