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After a trip down to Asian Pearl, Al and I took a trip down to the local recycle place. He spotted an Apple 3.5 inch External drive, the 800k variety we were discussing recently on the list. He wasn't interested, so I snagged it, and it appears to be working fine on the Mac IIci, although I wasn't sure at first, as it took me a while to find any 800k disks. Outside, I found an IBM Type 9331 011 8 inch external floppy drive, a nice black enclosure with the IBM logo in the oval badge set at 45 degrees, like the PS/2 line logos were. The interface connector on the rear has 37 pins and so I'm hoping it's the same as the interface on the old IBM floppy interfaces that had a 37-pin external connector. Anyone know what these drives were used with, and will I luck out on the interface? It needs cleaning... Also, an IDE removable harddrive carry case & two mounting frames, so I can start carrying serious storage two & fro the orifice, er, office. No blinkenlights, although the poprietor indicated he'd dumped a bunch of old stuff six months ago. Oh well, the way he does this is he leaves a pallet out front for people to stack stuff on. I'll start checking more often. Anyway, total damage for the above: eight bucks; five for the Apple drive, two for the IBM floppy, and 1 for the IDE shuttles. -dq