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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!purdue!knapp
- From: knapp@cs.purdue.EDU (Edgar Knapp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: High Density floppy drive in a Mac II?
- Keywords: Doesn't work right...
- Message-ID: <19336@ector.cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 21:07:54 GMT
- References: <18745@bunny.GTE.COM>
- Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
- Lines: 19
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- In article <18745@bunny.GTE.COM> stm0@gte.com (Steven McClure) writes:
- >Hello all. My girlfriend just purchased a Mac II without a floppy drive
- >and would like to install a High Density drive in it. When we put the HD
- >drive in, it refuses to read HD disks. It has a Rev A motherboard in it,
- >so I'm assuming we need a ROM upgrade, right? Or is there some other
- >way we can get the drive to work correctly? If not, any idea how much
- >an upgrade should/will cost? Thanks!!!!
-
- Too much, I am afraid. Last I checked, the upgrade including ROM rev. C
- and HD drive was above $500. I don't think you can get the ROMs
- separately. A good way to go seems to be to get one of these cheap
- Powerbook 100s with external HD drive: for just a couple of hundred
- bucks more you get a laptop, in addition to access to HD disks.
-
- Edgar
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- (knapp@cs.purdue.edu)
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