>Subject: SE Floppy >Date: Mon, 1 Sep 03 20:59:31 +0100 >As the owner of an SE with that confounded 800k floppy drive, I was >wondering is it possible to replace it with the drive from a later Mac & >thus be able to "talk" to the rest of the Mac world? > Rog Barclay.
Most SEs that have an 800k drive cannot use the 1.4 drives without changing out a chip on the motherboard. Also, the chip is soldered in if I recall, so that basicly means changing the motherboard. On the plus side, it is probably easier to change the whole board than just the one chip. And you have to take the motherboard out to change the floppy drive anyhow (I think). Also a SE FDHD motherboard (the motherboard that has the chip for 1.4M floppy drives) is a fairly cheap item. The minuses, you probably don't have the motherboard, and the shipping will likely be more than the price of the part. Other options include hooking up an external Zip drive or Syquest drive to your SE and use that to move information between your computers. An additional advantage to this method is the increased storage capacity of the drive. I'm pretty sure the Zip driver will fit on an 800k floppy. I used this method for quite awhile because our G4 doesn't have a floppy drive and it was the only means I had available to move data between the two machines. Or your could use Localtalk networking if the other machine(s) has serial ports. Or you could try to find an ethernet card for your SE if the other machine has ethernet. I added the ethernet card to my SE and use it to move data to it now. A final option is a relatively rare external drive made by Applied Engineering that allows the use of 1.4M floppies on 800k equipped machines. I want to say the model number was AEHD+ , but I'm not real sure on that. I do remember the + sign was important, as they made a similiar drive with the same model number sans "+" that doesn't do the job. Hopefully some of this answers your question, J White -- 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> --> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
