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Item 74: Disk Drive, Mac, 3.5"

Entered by popcorn on Fri Jul 12 12:19:58 1996:

Donated by Anita (asp)...

*Disk drive (pretty old, 3.5, mac )

If you are outside the Ann Arbor area and you bid on this item, please
include an extra $5 to cover shipping costs.
13 responses total.
#1 of 13 by dm on Sat Jul 13 21:10:50 1996:

Does it work for any mac or just some

#2 of 13 by asp on Sun Jul 14 20:24:10 1996:

I'm not sure it's model number is m0130, and, like I said it's a pretty old
macintosh external disk drive that we had around the house.

#3 of 13 by popcorn on Mon Jul 15 13:33:48 1996:

(Dumb question, but is this a floppy drive or a hard disk?)

#4 of 13 by asp on Thu Jul 18 03:36:11 1996:

um, it takes regular 3.5-inch mac-disks, it is not a hard drive

#5 of 13 by robh on Fri Jul 19 04:42:58 1996:

This item is still available, folks!

#6 of 13 by aruba on Fri Jul 19 22:05:15 1996:

Can someone tell me if you can plug more than one external disk drive into
an old MAC?  If so, I'll bid $5 (for my Mom).

#7 of 13 by ajax on Sat Jul 20 00:19:41 1996:

No, you can't plug in more than on external floppy drive at a time.

#8 of 13 by scg on Sat Jul 20 08:13:03 1996:

Are you sure about that, Rob?  I've never tried it, or looked it up in the
documentation, but I remember some old Mac external floppy drives that had
an extra port on the back for daisy chaining them.

#9 of 13 by ajax on Sat Jul 20 15:02:19 1996:

I'm not positive.  But I remember the back of the drive as having no ports.
It's been a while, though.  Anyone have such a drive they can check?

#10 of 13 by scg on Sat Jul 20 20:32:46 1996:

It depends on the age of the drive, I think.  The external drive on my
brother's Mac Plus, which we got in early '87, has no port on the back.  A
couple of years later, when my school got some new Mac Plusses, they got
external drives that did have ports on the back.  Apple changed the way the
external drives looked at that point, too.  The newer ones, with the port on
the back, also had some sort of poorly implemented electronic eject button
on the front, while the older ones had only the hole for the paper clip.

#11 of 13 by omni on Sun Jul 21 05:35:23 1996:

  That's a 400k drive, and pretty useless. You can plug it in the back, I just
don't see why you would. This would be useful if you had a 512KE, or 512, but
if you have a Plus, you should have a HD, or at least, an 800K drive.

#12 of 13 by scg on Sun Jul 21 08:03:53 1996:

Actually, these drives I was talking about were 800K.

#13 of 13 by ajax on Mon Jul 22 03:12:24 1996:

Ooh, I forgot about the 400k external drive era.  I think they were about
4 inches high, while the 800k drives were about 2 inches high, if that helps
in identifying it.

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