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Post #18 by James1095
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 19 Dec 2012 - 00:45
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/ibm-1-44m-lt-gt-mac-400k-800k-1-44m-or-scsi-hack.26825/
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I can't believe there wasn't an off the shelf solution back in the day for attaching PC FDDs to Macs. Wasn't there a BYO Mac trend there for a minute in the early 90s?
I suspect a significant part of this is that no PC floppy drives ever incorporated the disk detection and electrical inject/eject. That and IIRC the 800K drives vary the speed of the spindle to maintain a constant linear velocity. By the time you added all the bits needed to make a PC floppy drive work properly on a Mac, you wouldn't be saving any money over using a real Mac drive and you'd still have a lame manual eject drive.

Doesn't seem to be a great shortage of Mac floppy drives yet though. They're fairly robust and generally easy to repair. There may be some market for a floppy interface SSD, but I suspect a SCSI SSD would cover a far greater range of needs.

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