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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 800K drive on a IIx?????
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Date: 6 Dec 89 20:10:44 GMT
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In article <1159@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>Hello!
>
>  I've received no replies to my question of whether it's possible to use an
>800K drive with a Mac IIx.  I realize I'll need a cable to give myself an
>external connection (anyone know where to get one?), but I still don't know
>of the newer machines will take an 800K, or if they expect the FDHD...
>If you know, PLEASE tell me!  I'd appreciate hearing from people using
>external drives with this machine.  Good things, bad things, etc.?

I don't know about the IIx and why it doesn't have a connector.  The IIcx has
a connector and I have an 800K external hooked up.  It works fine.  There's
nothing in the newer ROMs or the SWIM chip that prevents 800K external drives.

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