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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:37:55 CST
- From: <U59985@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93023.213755U59985@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: RE: 1.4 Meg drive for Mac II
- References: <1057307.2B5C12EE@cmhgate.fidonet.org>
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- You may also want to try the AE Plus Drive. It plugs into the external drive po
- rt of the Mac. It will read Mac 800K and 1.4meg and IBM 720K and 1.4meg. Everyt
- hing needed is built into the drive. It only costs about $300 by mail order.
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- Because it is not a SCSI drive, you don't have to worry about SCSI numbers, ter
- mination, etc. Also, I don't think it needs an init to work, since it plugs int
- o the floppy drive port. I could be wrong on this point though. I do know that
- it works very well with AccessPC, etc.
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- Now you are saying, but I have a Mac II, I don't have an external drive port. T
- rue, and Applied Engineering knows this too, that's why they will sell you a ca
- ble that plugs into the interal drive port on the Mac II's. I think the cable c
- osts about $45. All in all, a good deal. And I think it's still cheaper than t
- he PLI TurboFloppy and SuperFloppy.
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- Thomas
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