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- From: ytam@sciborg.UWaterloo.ca (Ying Tam)
- Subject: An Inexpensive, External DOS Floppy Drive for a Mac Plus
- Message-ID: <BtC7uF.MxL@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Followup-To: yktam@biology.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
- Summary: Where/How can I find one and hook it up?
- Keywords: Mac Plus,DOS,floppy drive,external
- Sender: yktam@biology.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:20:38 GMT
- Expires: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:00:00 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- I hope that these questions are not FAQs and if they are.....SORRY!
- Basically, what I want to do is find an external floppy disk drive for my
- Mac Plus which can read/write DOS disks. Ideally, it would be able to
- read both Mac and DOS disk and use both HD and DD disks but if it could
- only read DOS disks or use only HD and not DD or vice versa (or any
- combination) that would be OK.
-
- So, my questions are as follows:
-
- 1. Can a Mac Plus be outfitted with such a drive? I've read a few things
- which say that the ROMs in a Plus don't support a DOS disk drive, but
- these were usually in response to questions about installing an Apple
- FDHD into an Plus. I have seen a couple of products that are supposed
- to be compatible with the Plus (Applied Engineering's AE+ drive and
- Kennect Technologies Rapport and Drive 2.4(?)) so why would the Plus's
- ROM support these external drives?
- 2. Where can I get an inexpensive DOS drive? Does anyone know of any?
- The AE+ and Drive 2.4 run about $300+ which kind of steep for a
- which I'm probably going to replace in a year or two anyways with a
- computer that has a FDHD.
- 3. Is it possible to just connect an IBM type external floppy drive to
- Mac? Someone I know thinks he read a posting from someone who did
- this but he wasn't sure what type of Mac it was or how it was done.
- If anyone knows if this is possible with a Plus and how it can be
- done (ie. how to wire the cable, etc) please let me know.
-
- Thanks for any help (please reply by e-mail) to the following address and
- if anything interesting shows up, I'll post a summary.
-
- Reply to: yktam@biology.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
-
- Ying Tam
-