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From: earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: 400k Disk Drive Wanted
Keywords: Disk Drive
Message-ID: <57846@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 90 03:20:13 GMT
References: <1990Sep27.170313.5329@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON)
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In article <1990Sep27.170313.5329@athena.mit.edu> darth@athena.mit.edu
	(Darren T Garnier) writes:
>A friend of mine recently acquired an old Mac128 but the disk
>drive is very flakey.  Can anyone suggest where I might get
>a used one cheap?  Internal or external, I don't care, price
>is the real issue and the MIT computer center wants $200.  

     You can plug a 3rd party 800k drive into the external drive port.  This
should cost less than $200 if you shop around.  If you get a copy of a file
named "HD20 Startup" that came with the System 3.0 distribution stuff, you
might even be able to read HFS disks with it.  Even without the "HD20 Startup"
file, you can still format and use double-sided 800k disks, but they would
have to be MFS.

Earle Horton