Am 31.08.2005 um 9:19 Uhr schrieb John Laughlin:
But the first iMacs had the 'remains' of a floppy interface, which
could be brought to life with a 20 way cable and a soldering iron,
ISTR!
Quite true. It's in one of the earlier MacAddict Issues. IIRC, March
1999. Anyway, don't try to use an auto-inject floppy drive from a
SE/30 or
other similar earlier Mac in one. Will constantly eject floppies.
Apple
did revise the code on the SWIM chip, beginning with the 7200. Once
tried
to put a Sony mechanism from a parts IIcx into my old 7500. Did not
work.
John, Stuart, this is most interesting. (And I thought with the elusive
"Mezzanine" slot I knew the heart of the matter...Where was I in 1999?
Busy fitting the Zip in my 840AV, I guess...LOL!) But if I get you
right, if the new SWIM code came with the 7200, this revision just
excluded the auto-inject drives while support for the pre-7200
manual-inject drives remained the same or got better. So your
transplant of a floppy into a 7500 would have been successful, had the
drive come from, say, a Performa 475 instead of the IIcx- correct?
Does the MacAddict article exist online somewhere? At which revision of
the iMac did the interface on the PCB disappear? (Sorry to be OT again,
but this is a very intriguing detail. You guys astound me once more.)
BTW, I found the "scary iMac" comic in my files, it is called
nofloppy.gif. If you have a taste for childish humour and the original
iMac, go to homepage.mac.com/giantmike/ pics/nofloppy.gif and enjoy.
Cheers, OM
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