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From: cleeland@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Chris Cleeland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh floppy drive prices in Manhattan/New York area
Keywords: 800k 1.4M floppy upgrade
Message-ID: <821@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 31 May 89 19:11:03 GMT
References: <774@tukki.jyu.fi>
Reply-To: cleeland@rex.UUCP (Chris Cleeland)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <774@tukki.jyu.fi> makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>My old 512k Mac with it's 400k drives is getting definitely outdated.
>I already have a 1M expansion card, now I need also a bigger floppy drive.
>Over here, component prices charged by Apple are truly exorbitant.
>
>Can 1.4M drives be attached to the basic 512k (Plus ROMs) machine, or are they
>only MacII stuff ?  Of course, if I'm upgrading, I'd like to go as far as is

Someone out there correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need the Super
Integrated Woz Machine (SWIM chip) to use the new drives?  If this is true,
then it's my bet that you can't use the new drives with the old ROM's.

On top of that, you also probably need some sort of system patch somewhere.

Who knows...maybe Apple will come out with some sort of INIT like
Hard Disk 20 so that *the rest of us* can use the new drives too :-)
-- 
Thanks
Chris Cleeland, Tulane University

Disclaimer:  I haven't said anything worth not claiming!!!