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A couple of weeks I asked the net for this and the best (and only) answers came  
from Dan.Donovan and William Herndon. Thank's guys !
Here's a summury of what they said:

A.I purchased a Teac FD235JS ( 2.8 SCSI 3.5 floppy drive ) and installed it
    in a cabinet that I already had.  The drive costs about $200 and can be
    had from a number of suppliers.  ( You do need a power supply, enclosure,
    and cables, though. )

    The Teac works fine, save for the fact that it is unable to automatically
    sense the disk density, and must be set manually. 

B. Cube Route is one option (800-CUBERTE).  They sell the Sony floppy drive  
used by
NeXT.  Last price I saw from them was ~$180--for a bare drive.  Teac drives  
which
support the same format are widely available for under $100.  Another option is
the SCSI floptical from Insight that Sysgen sells for under $300.  It supports
720KB, 1.44MB, 2.88MB and 21.7MB floppies.  I'm tempted to buy the latter for
testing as NeXT is decidedly unfriendly to the idea of selling me a new bezel (
with the floppy opening) for my Cube.  Cubes with serial numbers in/above the  
3000
range have mounting hardware for 4 half height peripherals, so you might be  
able
to remove the optical insert and use the drive that way.

cheers everybody,

--john m.

PS. Volker Herminghaus-Shirai and slugg jello I tried to send you this  
individually but it bounced !

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