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From: CJENKINSR@mail.cut.oz (Richard Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: dual drive in SE or II(s)
Message-ID: <1561@mail.cut.oz>
Date: 13 Dec 89 14:20:23 GMT
References: <5610@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <10363@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1479@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <1479@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli) writes:
> In article <10363@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>>Here are what I see as the possible configurations regarding floppy disk
>>drives:
>>
[stuff deleted]
> 
> Well, this really depends on how you go about putting a hard disk in an SE.
> For those of us who opt not to go with Apple's limiting setups (and want the
> second internal drive with an internal HD), there is a simple solution... a
> number of them actually.  Just get a third-party drive with a mounting bracket
> for either side or rear mounting inside the machine... then you can have your
> cake and eat it too...  (Internal HD does have to be 3.5", though)
> 
> Bill Taroli
> WWTAROLI@RODAN.acs.syr.edu
--

There is one small problem. On my SE the expansion slot is parallel with the
back of the machine, but on the later models (quiet fan vintage, or
thereabouts) and the current models the slot runs up the right hand side of 
the machine. 

If you install a hard drive with a bracket holding the drive vertical on the
right hand side of the mac, the slot becomes limited in it's usefulness, as 
there is a bloody great hard disk in the way. Not many third parties produce
add-on cards that are compact enough to fit with a hard drive.

"Look guys, Apple left us all this ROOM: let's only use half of it.."

By the time you've stuck in all this gear, and fabricated custom brackets and
cables to fit your 210Mb disk, your whizzo super accelerator card and your
incandescant latin american RAM, it'll go nearly as well as an SE/30.

Until the release of the next version of (insert software package, by Apple, 
Microsoft, or anyone else) when it will crash and burn because no-one develops
software for a market that is numbered in hundreds rather then thousands,
millions even.

Sorry to rave on, but the drive vendor won't tell you, and the card vendor 
won't tell you, and Apple...

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