On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 08:24 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 08:18 AM, Stuart Bell wrote:
That's the first Plus/SE hybrid I've come across! We probably shouldn't be surprised how interchangeable the components are when it's remembered that the SE chassis still has an aperture on its front element that would accept a 5.25" drive where the 3.5" drives go, presumably because a 5.25" drive was only rejected quite late in the development of the first Mac, and Apple didn't change the chassis for the SE to remove that potential.
It may have bee retained as a possible mounting for a 5.25" hard disk, such as the ones used in the original Mac II. I also know of a lot of Mac/512/Plus/SE 'specials' that used 5.25" floppy drives, for defense contracts and such like.
The chassis view I was thinking of is the first photo here: http://www.stuartbell.dsl.pipex.com/PowerCC/SE30CD/SE30CD.html
Definitely for a 5.25" floppy, I'm sure.
There's quite a lot of interesting links towards the bottom of this page which are relevant to the intention that the Mac would have a 'Twiggy' drive. In the event, it was so unreliable that Apple engineers went behind Jobs' back to line up a 3.5" alternative for the moment that Jobs realised that the 'Twiggy' was a non-starter:
http://www.applefritter.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/ YaBB.pl?board=powercc;action=display;num=1033895847;start=
;-)
Stuar
<empathizes with Stuar (t??) posting at 8:20am...>
Better now!
StuarT.
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