Re: Apple 3.5 Inch Drive

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

stephen e buggie (buggie@pegasus.unm.edu) wrote:
: Okay.  How about this, then:

: Buy a non-working white Unidisk 3.5 drive.  Then transplant a Mac 800K
: mechanism into the casing.  This will work as long as the analog board in
: the Unidisk 3.5 casing is intact.

That makes perfect sense, no? I wouldn't expect the mechs to be different
from the internals in Macs to any flavor of external.

: I have done mechanism-transplants from Macs to Platinum 3.5 casing and
: also to Unidisk 3.5 casing; both types succeeded.

I had a broken unidisk and did the swap too. It was so long ago that the
replacement 800K mech cost $20 and I thought I was doing all right. Recently
I have bought stacks of 800Ks for $1 a pop.
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