Hey Everyone,
I need a 800k 3.5" external disk drive for my PowerMac 7100. The
only connection on these machines that seems viable for such a device
is the SCSI port, but that dosn't really make sense for such a slow
device. I definitely don't think one could use the serial / printer
port. I have never seen an external disk drive for a PowerMac. My
Apple IIe & GS have a special port just for external floppy drives,
does anyone know if their is an adapter that makes these compatible
with a Macintosh? This would be great, because I have several of these
drives already.
The reason I need this is because the 2MB internal drive won't read
800k disks, no Mac "superdrive" will. I never understood this
limitation with Mac machines, as I come from a PC background. This has
never been true of PC disk drives. I understand why it won't work,
because of head alignment, I just don't understand why this is not the
case in PC drives. Anyone know a way around this? I don't think there
is one.
Does anyone have a 800k 3.5" drive that will work with a PowerMac 7100
which they wouldn't mind selling for a reasonable price?
Thanks,
Dylan
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