I'm here at Kfest and the question came up: was there a CD-ROM option for
the 5300/190 that can be swapped for the disk drive module?
No but there almost was. The space is too small for a conventional CD-ROM drive. Apple was promoting the idea of a mini-CD drive in the industry but found no interest. I guess they didn't want to go it alone. It would have been difficult if they had. I doubt too many people would have published software or music on the smaller CDs. And when slot loaders came along it would have been a real mess.
There are floppy drives, ZIP drives and the weight saving device (empty box with room for PC Cards) that fit there. I think someone produced an AC power supply that fit there but I might be thinking of a different model.
VST produced a magneto-optical drive which worked up until System 7, which wasn't really much use (I have one) as nobody else had a drive that was compatible with it, and nobody supported it after System 7.something. It was quite handy for backups, though.
Matt
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