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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: LC & SuperDrive??
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.223046.14796@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 22:30:46 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.132542.25220@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes:

>drive).  There's just one problem... the LC lacks a port for an
>external floppy drive - it's the only Macintosh without such a port.

Not so-- the Mac II and IIx both lack such a port, and probably the IIfx also
lacks the port (since it is in the same case).

>	I read in either MacUser or MacWorld that the engineers
>excluded an external floppy port because it would have added $1.50 to
>the cost.  I understand shaving features to reduce price, but a floppy
>drive port?  <sigh>

It should be possible to run a 40-pin ribbon cable from the second floppy
connector on the motherboard onto the similiar connector inside an external
drive, no?  It's a kludge, but it ought to work (provided the ribbon is short
and of good quality-- I doubt the stuff usually used for RS232 applications
would work.)
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