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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New SE/30 discoveries
Message-ID: <83842@felix.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 16:27:30 GMT
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I felt like the poster who said every one told him to wait till the next
new Mac came out and if he continued to follow that advice he'd never
get one. But I got an extraordinary good deal on an SE/30 and due to some
other looming expenses decided to go low end instead of wait for the IIcx.

I NEED A LARGE SCREEN MONITOR!  Otherwise there was no reason to get a
new machine. I tried calling E Mchines, but all their sales reps were in
a meeting. I was curious about the reply that no one makes a 32-bit
monochrome monitor. Is that another name for grey scale?  Am I missing
something?

Has anyone else added a large screen monochrome (not grey scale) monitor
to the SE/30 who would like to make a recommendation?

Also, for those who don't have the new high density floppy, it might be
a while before some of this information becomes common knowledge.

The HD floppy has a cutout hole on the upper left corner. If you insert
one of these in your HD floppy drive, the dialog box offers no choices
in formatting. It's either initialize or eject. (If you insert the regular
floppy, the choices are the standard single or double sided.)

To initialize for IBM format, you open the Apple File Exchange application,
and then insert the diskette. There are two different dialog boxes,
depending upon whether you inserted an HD floppy or a regular one.

There is a warning to never put an HD floppy into an 800k or 400k drive. 
"These disk drives cannot reliably read or write information on HD disks,
and they cannot properly initialize an HD disk for use in an Apple FDHD."

If you accidentally put an HD floppy into an 800 or 400k drive, you will
be asked if you want to initialize it or eject it. If you do initialize
an HD floppy as an 800 or 400k disk, when you put it in the HD drive, it
will again offer only to initialize or eject.

Thus, the moral of the story is: use HD floppies (with cutouts in the upper
left corner) only in HD floppy drives. You can't (reliably) use this disk to
transfer files to 400 and 800k drives.

Shirley Kehr