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From: meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 800K drive on a IIx?????
Summary: Does anybody make internals besides apple?
Keywords: FDHD 800K
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Date: 7 Dec 89 01:54:00 GMT
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In article <1167@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu writes:
>Greetings,
>
>  Thanks to those of you who sent or posted replies to my question of whether
>it is possible to use an 800K drive with a IIx.  The answer, apparently, is:
>
>Yes, no problem.
>
>  No problem, that is, except for the cable.  The IIx does not have an
>external floppy connector, presumably because the expect that you will put
>the second floppy inside (and thus Apple makes you buy their drive...).
>
Doesn't anybody make an internal 800k drive besides Apple?  With all
of these suppliers of external floppies, it seems to me an internal
would be available.  It seems to me that I could buy an external,
remove the casing and install it in my Mac II. I would like to avoid
paying for a case and this hassle altogether, but is there any
reason this wouldn't work?

Paul Eric Menchen
meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu