Normally I would not have believed this either (and I still suspect it
is more due to poor phrasing of the sentences I read). But the source
is John Farr, one of the editors or AppleLinks, who is keeping readers
informed of his progress at turning a 8600 box into an OS-X box. He was
the one that claimed to be replacing the floppy with a new 10,000 rpm
SCSI drive. But I think he is just using the space the floppy took up.
Except....
Jerry
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 12:59 AM, Bill Holt wrote:
>
>> There are rumors that you can replace the floppy drive with a hd and
>> do
>> this as well.
>>
>> Jerry
>
>
> I'd treat those rumors with extreme skepticism, Jerry. The floppy
> isn't a
> scsi or an ATA drive ... it's a whole different sort of system. Now,
> it's
> true that there was a hard drive made from about 1984 to maybe 1986
> which
> was designed to use the external floppy port, but that was before Macs
> had
> scsi ports. That people were willing to buy those may be what
> persuaded
> Apple to add scsi as a standard.
>
>
> Bill Holt
>
>
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>
>
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