Lisa floppy problems

From: Phil Beesley <PB14_at_leicester.ac.uk>
Date: Wed Sep 16 05:02:31 1998

On 16 Sep 98 at 0:14, Tony Duell wrote:

> One interesting 'feature' of the 800K Mac drive (and I suspect the 400K
> drive is similar) is that there's a pin on the connector (pin 9, I think)
> which will trigger the eject mechanism if clamped to ground. It's not
> used on the Mac AFAIK. Maybe it was used on the Lisa.

I suspect that the feature is used by the Apple II family. External
3.5" drives for the II have an eject switch.

Phil
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