[geeks] Wanted: Source for 800K mac floppy drives..

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Sun Mar 31 16:54:25 CST 2002


On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 04:10 AM, Fogg, James wrote:

> Hrm. I thought Apple was using the superdrive exclusively by the time 
> that
> the SE came out.

Nope, the SE FDHD had one, but the original SE was 800K.  So was the 
128, 512, 512Ke, Plus, and the original Mac II.

> Of course, free Macs of the 128 vintage are usually around.
> Yardsale/churchsale season is about to hit here, and I always find 
> something
> free/cheap. I never thought of an early Mac as having parts potential,
> except for the tube. Maybe I should pick some up.

I ended up finding one on ebay (external) for $5, them found a good 
source for internal ones:

http://www.users.qwest.net/~jgarbacz/

-Pete



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