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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Drilling holes in DS/DD -> DS/HD
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.052946.28163@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 05:29:46 GMT
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In article <5678@ncar.ucar.edu> schabtac@porter.UCAR.EDU (Adam Schabtach) writes:
>
>But back to the topic at hand:  I knew a guy who went one step further, and
>put a switch on the front of his disk drive that allowed him to defeat the
>microswitch inside that "felt" the write-protect notch.  That way, he didn't
>have to punch notches in his disk -- he'd just flip the switch, and the
>drive would merrily write onto a write-protected disk, or onto the back of
>an upside-down disk.
Yup, I did the same thing, works quite well.
>
>Well, now, things are different, but a notch is a notch, and I see no reason
>why one couldn't perform a similar modification on a newfangled 3.5" drive.
>It might be more aesthetically pleasing to put the switch on the inside of
>the case somewhere, rather than drilling the front of your Mac II chassis.
The soldering job would be MUCH more delicate-- those Disk ][s had lots
of space inside, plus fairly big connections.  The switches for 800K
(and presumably 1600K) drives are mounted directly on the PC board.
>

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