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Article #43282Re: Macintosh floppy drive prices in Manhattan/New York area
From: Annard Brouwer
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 12:46
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 12:46
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In article <774@tukki.jyu.fi> makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >My old 512k Mac with it's 400k drives is getting definitely outdated. >I already have a 1M expansion card, now I need also a bigger floppy drive. >Over here, component prices charged by Apple are truly exorbitant. > >Can 1.4M drives be attached to the basic 512k (Plus ROMs) machine, or are they >only MacII stuff ? Of course, if I'm upgrading, I'd like to go as far as is >practical... and I'd love to transfer stuff from PC machines also. > According to MacWorld (May 1989) there is a drive that can be attached to the Plus, Se and 512KE and reads Mess-Dozzz and some features of the new SuperDrive. It connects to the Mac with a little box in the external floppy disc port. It's called Report and is made by Kennect. According to this article it should cost about US$295. I'm very interested in this little beastie, does anybody have some real world info about it? Greetings, Annard. -- name : Annard Brouwer address: Dreef 74 BITNET : RCGBBAAB@HEITUE51 5504 LD Veldhoven UUCP : rcbaab@eutrc3.uucp the Netherlands
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!rcbaab From: rcbaab@eutrc3.UUCP (Annard Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Macintosh floppy drive prices in Manhattan/New York area Keywords: 800k 1.4M floppy upgrade Message-ID: <701@eutrc3.UUCP> Date: 31 May 89 12:46:55 GMT References: <774@tukki.jyu.fi> Reply-To: rcbaab@eutrc3.UUCP (Annard Brouwer) Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 22