From: Dr.O.M.Betz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: If it is an 800k drive...
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:01:52 +0200
Am 30.08.2005 um 21:47 Uhr schrieb Clark Martin:
Everything later than those models, up to the iMac, have superdrives,
including the SE/30.
I read this as "excluding the iMac and later models". IOW, the beige
G3s including the AIO which is marginally on topic here were the latest
Macs to have a floppy. The iMac, first (clamshell) iBooks, G3 B&W and
follow-ups didn't. Somebody found the lack of a floppy drive in the
iMac so bad he made a comic strip of a guy disguising as an iMac for
The original iMac actually had a blank connector (no header
installed) for the floppy and apparently floppy support in the
chipset and ROMs. All that was necessary was to solder a header onto
that position on the logic board and connect a floppy cable and
floppy drive. Of course, there was nowhere in the case to mount it...
I do not know on what revision that "feature" was removed. One
company was actually selling a kit for about $50 with the three parts
needed for the retrofit (header, cable, floppy drive). And one wag
called the kit a great deal, not because he wanted a floppy drive in
his iMac, but because a new Mac style floppy drive still went for
about $100 at that time and here was a kit that included one for $50.
Jeff Walther
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