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From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Fri May 3 17:02:12 2002

After a trip down to Asian Pearl, Al and I took a
trip down to the local recycle place. He spotted an
Apple 3.5 inch External drive, the 800k variety we
were discussing recently on the list. He wasn't
interested, so I snagged it, and it appears to be
working fine on the Mac IIci, although I wasn't
sure at first, as it took me a while to find any
800k disks.

Outside, I found an IBM Type 9331 011 8 inch external
floppy drive, a nice black enclosure with the IBM logo
in the oval badge set at 45 degrees, like the PS/2 line
logos were. The interface connector on the rear has 37
pins and so I'm hoping it's the same as the interface
on the old IBM floppy interfaces that had a 37-pin
external connector.

Anyone know what these drives were used with, and will
I luck out on the interface? It needs cleaning...

Also, an IDE removable harddrive carry case & two mounting
frames, so I can start carrying serious storage two & fro
the orifice, er, office.

No blinkenlights, although the poprietor indicated he'd
dumped a bunch of old stuff six months ago. Oh well, the
way he does this is he leaves a pallet out front for people
to stack stuff on. I'll start checking more often.

Anyway, total damage for the above: eight bucks; five for
the Apple drive, two for the IBM floppy, and 1 for the IDE
shuttles.

-dq
Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 17:02:12 BST