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steve@snoopy.tamu.edu (Steve Rikli) writes:
> Is it possible to obtain an internal cdrom drive for the NeXTcube?

Not that I know of.

> Given my choice, I would like to pull the floptical drive entirely,

Presumably you mean your optical drive, the drive that came with the  
original NeXTcube.  A "floptical" is a different medium, which is closer to  
being a 2.88meg floppy disk than a optical drive.

> and just replace it with either the 2.88MB floppy disk or the cdrom
> drive, preferably the latter.  Is this at all possible?

If you get your service provider to play around with parts, you can replace  
your optical drive with a 2.88meg floppy drive.  We did it for someone here  
at RPI, whose optical drive just plain died.  To do it "right" isn't exactly  
cheap, because you end up having to buy a whole bunch of parts from NeXT.  I  
forget the exact details, but I do remember that it ends up costing more  
than (I personally think) it was worth.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA