A little insight on this drive/branding:
I think this debuted in August 1989 alongside the SE SuperDrive. Apple was aggressively pushing the SuperDrive at that point and was using the FDHD label on everything. My guess is that people didn't know exactly what it meant and may have thought the HD stood for "hard drive". SE SuperDrives started rolling off the line sometime in 1990 and stayed in production until 1991. I'd imagine the drives switched over by that point.
This drive was evidently in production for some time, especially since Apple IIs were still being sold into 1993, but was a slow seller since most Mac users had gone to one floppy, one hard drive by that point (and Apple IIs weren't exactly hot items in their final years, plus most who bought them seemed to spring for the more popular 5.25" drives). I get a feeling there was a lot of unused FDHD drive inventory, although any external 1.4MB drive (non-USB) is pretty rare.
I'm not sure if there would have been a second edition manual. I'm almost positive the SE SuperDrive had just one manual, which referred to it as the "Macintosh SE" but had the dithered photo on the front, not the standard color photo like the earlier manuals.
I think this debuted in August 1989 alongside the SE SuperDrive. Apple was aggressively pushing the SuperDrive at that point and was using the FDHD label on everything. My guess is that people didn't know exactly what it meant and may have thought the HD stood for "hard drive". SE SuperDrives started rolling off the line sometime in 1990 and stayed in production until 1991. I'd imagine the drives switched over by that point.
This drive was evidently in production for some time, especially since Apple IIs were still being sold into 1993, but was a slow seller since most Mac users had gone to one floppy, one hard drive by that point (and Apple IIs weren't exactly hot items in their final years, plus most who bought them seemed to spring for the more popular 5.25" drives). I get a feeling there was a lot of unused FDHD drive inventory, although any external 1.4MB drive (non-USB) is pretty rare.
I'm not sure if there would have been a second edition manual. I'm almost positive the SE SuperDrive had just one manual, which referred to it as the "Macintosh SE" but had the dithered photo on the front, not the standard color photo like the earlier manuals.