Help! need 400k/800k Mac os 6 or 7 diskettes!

From: Ron Hudson <rhudson_at_cnonline.net>
Date: Fri Oct 10 08:09:42 2003

Was there such a thing as an external 1.44 drive? If there was
could my SE use it?


On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 02:46 PM, chris wrote:

>> Do older external 400k drives work with System 8?
>
> I doubt it. I'm pretty sure Apple removed support for 400K disks at the
> OS level starting with 8. Although I could be wrong.
>
>> I find it hard to
>> swing a dead cat without hitting a pile of external Mac (or Apple II)
>> disk drives.
>
> Are you sure they are 400k drives? The platinum colored ones that were
> pleantiful and worked with the mac and the IIgs are 800k drives.
>
> If you really find an old external beige 400k drive for the Mac, I'd
> love
> to have it. I have two that are dead and none that work. I'd like one
> for
> one of my 128 Macs.
>
> -chris
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
>
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