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- From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Ty Bower)
- Subject: Re: 1.4 Meg drive for Mac II
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.000653.1724@udel.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:06:53 GMT
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- >You may also want to try the AE Plus Drive. It plugs into the external drive
- >port of the Mac. It will read Mac 800K and 1.4meg and IBM 720K and 1.4meg.
- >Everything needed is built into the drive. It only costs about $300 by mail
- >order.
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- >Now you are saying, but I have a Mac II, I don't have an external drive port.
- >True, and Applied Engineering knows this too, that's why they will sell you a
- >cable that plugs into the interal drive port on the Mac II's.
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- You say they offer a cable for Mac II's. Do they offer a fully internal
- version of this drive? Can you remove the innards from an AE Plus
- and install it internally yourself? And how do they get around the
- ROM/SWIM limitation for Mac II's?
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- It sounds neat, but I am distrustful. For $300 + $45 (for the cable),
- it's $100 less than the real thing. But, if I cough up the $450 for
- the Apple version, I also get free installation, it takes up no more
- desk space, and I've now got the IIx ROMs (which removes some SIMM
- configuration limitations.)
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