chris@sunset.ncsl.nist.gov (Chris Schanzle) (10/24/89)
Well, this thing has been collecting dust for too long now. I practically never use the thing since I purchased a hard drive. It's always worked perfectly - never been in the shop. I've never had an instance where it could/could not read a disk when another drive could read it (thus, good alignment/speed characteristics). It's a real Apple 800K external disk drive. Price: $165 ___________ Chris Schanzle (301) 975-3796 (wrk) "There are bigger things in Computer Scientist (301) 644-6242 (hm) the scheme of life than Ntnl Inst. of Stds & Tech to worry about a woman chris@sunset.ncsl.nist.gov (129.6.48.38) who drives you nuts." "There are bigger things in the Chris Schanzle, Comp. Scntst scheme of life than to worry Ntnl Inst. of Stds & Tech about a woman who drives you nuts." chris@sunset.ncsl.nist.gov 129.6.48.38
ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen) (10/25/89)
Ok folks, I don't know very much about Macs, especially their hardware, so I
was wondering if you could answer some questions about them for me.
A) Can an 800k external drive be hooked up to a Mac 512 which currently has
two 400k drives (one internal and one external) without any
hardware/software upgrades?
B) How outdated and useless are Mac 512's? (especially with 400k drives)
C) What is a reasonable price for a used 800k external drive?
D) How common is it for Mac floppy drives to have trouble ejecting disks?
What are recommended fixes for this sort of problem? (Note that I'm not
technically inept and don't mind fixing the drive myself.)
In case you are all wondering, I am interested in using an old klunker Mac 512
that I acquired (for free) to transfer data to other types of PC's.
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--< A real engineer never reads the instructions first! >-- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+dcc@ccvr1.uucp (Daniel Carr) (10/25/89)
In article <1795@durer.cme.nbs.gov> chris@sunset.ncsl.nist.gov (Chris Schanzle) writes: > >It's a real Apple 800K external disk drive. > >Price: $165 > i just got a "preferred customer" flyer (for what that's worth) from MacWarehouse advertising a new mac 800k external disk drive for $149.00 you might want to call them and find out the scoop. there's a 800 number in their ad which can be found in macuser or macworld. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daniel C. Carr <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>> North Carolina State University Computing Center <<<<<<< dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu daniel@ncsuvm.BITNET d.c.carr, GEnie