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Post #4 by phreakout
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateTue, 22 Mar 2011 - 03:40
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/se-30-yoke-harness-amp-floppy.22635/
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Hatta,

I've used internal floppy drives salvaged from other retro Macs that will work on your SE/30. For example, I had a bunch of Power Mac 6100 series that were DOA donations. I stripped them all of their RAM, cache cards, cables, hard drives and floppy drives. Most of them used either Sony or Mitsubishi brand drives and are the manual inject, auto eject type. Those are all compatible with the SE/30.

One thing to note, though. You might have to slightly modify the front opening on the case where you stick the floppy disk in. This is especially true when you do the Mac SE-to Mac SE/30 upgrade; that's where you swap out the dual 800K floppy drives and logic board of an SE and replace with a hard drive, single 1.44MB floppy and an SE/30 logic board. For example, on mine I had to Dremel tool the front opening of the case about a 1/4-inch down for access to the manual eject button and floppy insert opening. You might not have to this if the case is a genuine SE/30 model.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

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