Re: Sales Semo on CCO

[sane@netaxs.com (Wonko The Sane)]

Peterm (peterm@tlp.apana.org.au) wrote:
:  G> I think you mean the PowerMacs. They have different drives
:  G> (eventually the new
:  G> performas and quadra 630, too), manufactured by IBM.
:  G> IBM drives in a Apple? Crazy, huh? :)

:  G> - henrik

: Nope... the new "push it all the way in" floppy drives have a small
: non-problem. Apple says that there is no problem. But people should not expect
: to be able to reliably read HD diskettes written on the older SuperDrive-style
: drives on the new drives because of tighter tolerances.
: I think that the IBM drives that you are referring to are actually the SCSI
: drives. IBM seems to be selling lotsa SCSI drives to other manufacturers. Just
: pulled a 40Meg IBM SCSI out of a friend's LC.

Yeah, found the same thing in my School's lab's LCII. Weird.

	Mark