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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: 400k Disk Drive Wanted
Keywords: Disk Drive
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Date: 1 Oct 90 21:42:06 GMT
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In article <57846@microsoft.UUCP> earleh@microsoft.UUCP (Earle HORTON) writes:
>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

NoNoNoNoNo!

Unless I am seriously mistaken, 800K floppy drives WILL NOT WORK with
the original 128K Mac.  Don't waste your money!

If I am wrong, well...I would love to know how to make an 800K drive
work on a 512K Mac.  Flames welcome if they contain this very useful
information!!!

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