19 Jul
2000
19 Jul
'00
11:53 p.m.
Oh dear, that sounds like a drive that's
"beyond repair"
even for Tony Duell :-)
*grin*
I have to report that I did buy a Mac external disk
drive
at a car boot sale for three quid. One of the useful
skills for the car boot enthusiast is the ability to spot a
rare and valuable artifact at twenty paces, then buy it
without giving the seller any hints that might cause them
to jack the price up...
Yep - already got that skill, thankfully. It's how I spotted things like a
fully boxed and packaged Sharp MZ700 under a pile of clothes, my first Mac
Plus buried under a table amongst, you guessed it, clothes.....even my first
museum machine (Enterprise) was spotted from quite a distance as it lay
scattered on a blue sheet with old lawnmowers and tables etc! Had a nice
muddy footprint on it too.
Anyway, keep searching the car boot sales, PC shop
junk-boxes and charity shops! You'll find one, eventually!
I was considering using the floppy drive from my bust Classic till I
discovered that it uses a SuperDrive.....charity shops up here don't sell
electrical items much since they've got to get them tested for safety. I'll
just have to keep mingling with the great unwashed every weekend :o)
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