> From: Chris
>
> >I think there was exactly one product from Apple that plugged into
> >the floppy port - a 20MB disk that required strange drivers. I
> >don't recall the part number, but when Apple came out with a 20MB
> >SCSI disk, they called it the "20SC" or something similar (IIRC)
> >to distinguish it from the older product.
>
> The floppy port one was called the Hard Disk 20 (Hard Drive 20?? damn, I
> always screw that up). You are right on the SCSI one (20SC). And there is
> a 2nd product that I am aware of Apple made for the floppy port. An
> external 400k floppy drive. They may have made other external floppies
> for the Mac that use the floppy port as well (800k maybe, but I don't
> think they made a 1.44 external)
>
> There were of course other floppy drives made for floppy ports on the
> IIgs, but I don't know if that is the same functionality, so I don't know
> if those could have been used on the Mac.
>
> -chris
>
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
This reminds me... I have here an Applied Engineering AEHD 3.5"
External disk drive for Apple Computers. But the machine it's from is long
gone.
Who wants it? Say, $20 for me to pack it and ship it out.
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