Yo compacters everywhere, Our Dave Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> weighs in on Stuart's twin floppy SE
<I heard someone shoehorned a hard drive in an SE that had two floppies already, but I can't imagine how.> Yup. A couple of ways to do this three drives in an SE stunt. >From one of our twin 800k floppy SEs donated to the senior center, you can imagine my utter surprise when first turning it on, IT BOOTED WITHOUT A FLOPPY! A fast opening of the case revealed an offset bracket that stacked a 1/3 height hard drive on top of the two floppy drives. This bracket is a well designed and crafted production item as it even has a part number stamped into it. This bracket offsets the hard drive to the rear of the case for a very precise fit between the slope of the CRT and the backside of the case. Using a common Quantum drive causes no distortion of the screen image nor overload of the power supply. It runs fine. I still have this prized bracket. I even took it to Europe last year to share with our fellow lister here, OM Betz (Hi OM!). We were both amazed with the bracket. A second option for three drives in an SE case may be found at Gamba's site. For Gamba, I trial installed a 1/3 height Quantum drive mounted on edge between the floppy/hard drive stack and the power suppy of an SE. With a set of three connector power and SCSI cables, this one floppy + two hard drive SE ran just fine including no screen distortion nor power supply issues. A heavy set of read-write diagnostic tests of this hard drive mounted right next to the power supply showed it worked just fine. Gamba's interest here is a project for mounting a hard drive this way in an SE/30 freeing up the space above the floppy drive for multiple PDS cards. I haven't his page cite at hand, but a search through Gamba's site will likely find his drawings for this on-edge install of a drive inside of an SE or SE/30 case. Methinks the SE power supply is just a little more "robust" than some fear it is not. All of this suggests you could stuff two floppies and two hard drives into an SE. Hmmm... a twin floppy SE with a boot drive AND a large scratch disk just for running an early Photoshop! Bill -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
