I guess I've never seen an external drive for high-density floppies... I have several units of two different models of external FDDs. Here's a picture:
http://www.wahkiakumwest.com/~virkkala/images/externalFDD.jpg The top one is called an "800K External Drive," the bottom one an "Apple 3.5 Drive." Both work fine on all my compact Macs (SE-Classic II), but only with 800k floppies. It turns out that both were made before the SE started shipping high-density drives in late 1989. (My SE reads the high-density floppies.) So: What are the external drives for the high-density disks called? Do they look pretty much like these? ( Were many of them made? Any? (I suppose that there would be little use for them after the compacts began using internal hard drives.) And what was the purpose of the daisy chainable plugs at the back of the "Apple 3.5 Drive" - since one can't daisy chain another such drive and have it read by the computer? (Did another type of drive add on? A hard drive with this peculiar connectivity? Is this daisy-chain function of any use to SE's, Classics, and the like?) -- Timothy -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
