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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.153508.2387@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 29 Aug 90 15:35:08 GMT
References: <66968.26D14DFC@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <1990Aug22.164847.7912@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1990Aug23.080534.6697@silvlis.com> <1990Aug28.080659.29958@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <1990Aug28.080659.29958@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:
>Well, this is a big Apple problem, IMNSHO.  Not just unfortunate.
>You can't BUY a SIWM for
>your Mac, for love nor money--and that's the only Official Apple way to
>support 1.44 Mbyte floppy drives.  If there's a way to add one to my
>Plus--I'd love to see it.  Moreover, I'd like to buy it.  I'd love it

I share your frustration with the excessive price of Apple upgrades
(and new computers too :-).  The Mac does have built-in SCSI however,
and I recall seeing a ad for a FDHD-compatible SCSI drive recently
somewhere (sorry, don't have the specifics).  Unfortunately I'm
sure it will still be considerably more expensive than an MSDOS-type
drive....

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