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To: T Minus Four
Remember when everything PC's came with a 5 1/4 and a 3 inch floppy for a while? Macs never had a 5 1/4...
19 posted on 07/11/2009 9:09:59 PM PDT by WVKayaker (Even stumbling blocks can be used for re-construction - Ernst R. Hauschka)
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To: WVKayaker

No, but you could take some of the later 5.25” Apple II floppies and hook them up to the Mac. It would work, albeit not well.

And then there was the LC and LC II which had an Apple IIe on a card internally - which could connect to a 5.25” Apple II drive and transfer files to and from the Mac.


31 posted on 07/11/2009 9:45:10 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: WVKayaker
Macs never had a 5 1/4...

I meant that software you purchased had both-sized media in the box so you could use the one yuo needed and pitch the other.

71 posted on 07/12/2009 9:24:10 AM PDT by T Minus Four (Matthew 15:8 - 9)
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To: WVKayaker
Macs never had a 5 1/4...

True enough, but I think someone made a SCSI version so you could attach one. The 128k Mac, was supposed to be a 256k Mac, but not enough chips were available, so Steve Jobs decided that no one would ever need more than 128k.

The original 3.5 Mac floppy was 400k but was big enough to hold MacWrite, MacDraw, the operating system, and plenty of room to store files.

People commonly referred to the 3.5 floppy as a Hard disk.

92 posted on 07/16/2009 9:56:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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