[comp.sys.amiga.emulations] Mac External Floppy - $99.99

dbucciar@isis.cs.du.edu (Dom Bucciarelli) (05/13/91)

For anyone considering AMax:

A mail order company (Damark 800-729-9000) is offering an exernal 800k Mac
floppy drive for $99.99 (+ $6.50 S&H).  It's manufactured by a company named
"LASER".  The catalog lists the following features:
	o  800K Formatted capacity.
	o  Mac +, SE, 512, compatible.
	o  1 Year Mfr. Warranty.
	o  Factory New.  (Refurbished?)

The Item number is B-472-173664.


--
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|o|                         Dom Bucciarelli                             |o|
|o|                     (dbucciar@nyx.cs.du.edu)                        |o|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

andrewsr@steely.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) (05/14/91)

MacDirect also has a $99 Fugitsu drive.  I really like mine, it comes
with a small plastic piece to mout the drive upright.  It also has a
manual eject button (in case A-Max crashes with a disk in the drive).

-Rich
-- 
  // Rich    | "have you ever noticed that opinion without knowledge is
\X/  Andrews |  always a shabby sort of thing?"  - Socrates

bobl@graphics.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdm) (05/15/91)

dbucciar@isis.cs.du.edu (Dom Bucciarelli) writes:

> For anyone considering AMax:
> 
> A mail order company (Damark 800-729-9000) is offering an exernal 800k Mac
> floppy drive for $99.99 (+ $6.50 S&H).  It's manufactured by a company named
> "LASER".  The catalog lists the following features:
> 	o  800K Formatted capacity.
> 	o  Mac +, SE, 512, compatible.
> 	o  1 Year Mfr. Warranty.
> 	o  Factory New.  (Refurbished?)
> 
> The Item number is B-472-173664.

Also, Mac Warehouse at 800/255-6227 is offering a Fujitsu 800k drive
for $99.00.  Product # DRI 0186.  A friend of mine has it and it is
quiet and works just fine with AMAX II.  We used it and it's perfect.

These drives have a 1 year warranty and are new drives.

-- Bob

 The Graphics BBS  908/469-0049  "It's better than a sharp stick in the eye!"
 ============================================================================
  InterNet: bobl@graphics.rent.com                | Raven Enterprises
      UUCP: ...rutgers!bobsbox!graphics!bobl      | 25 Raven Avenue
    BitNet: bobl%graphics.rent.com@pucc           | Piscataway, NJ 08854
    Home #: 908/560-7353                          | 908/271-8878

bja20850@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (B.J. Anderson) (05/21/91)

Speaking of Mac drives... isn't there supposed to be a drive that doubles as
an external Amiga _and_ Mac drive???

Where?  How much?

-Beej

--
I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
mail: anderson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

maxc1503@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse) (05/21/91)

bja20850@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (B.J. Anderson) writes:

>Speaking of Mac drives... isn't there supposed to be a drive that doubles as
>an external Amiga _and_ Mac drive???
>Where?  How much?

If I think what you are thinking: the AmigaTosh and the AmigaTosh Plus drives,
the answer is NO. The deceiving names of them made me wonder when it came out.
AmigaTosh drive is just a plain 800K Mac compatible external drive. The 
AmigaTosh Plus was discontinued since it had equivalent circuit and rom
socket as the AMax cartridge, and ReadySoft warned them to take them off
the market. I was trying very hard to find one some time ago, since I don't
like the AMax cartridge dangling out at the back, so I can't push in my
Amiga as much.

Again, there are no known drive available for both Amiga and Mac format.

>-Beej
>--
>I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
>I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
>I must remember to be cheerful and obedient.
>mail: anderson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

David

ravi@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL (avi rozen) (05/27/91)

Speaking of Mac external flopy drive, did any one try the macdrive hack
found on ab20? Does it work as a mac drive (in terms of transfering data from
mac disks ), will it work like say df3... or will an external High density mac
drive work as High density on the amax part?

If anybody has some answears Please mail me :)

				Avi Rozen (ravi@techunix.technion.ac.il)