"Toy" computers (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Apr 2002

In a message dated 4/25/2002 10:46:00 AM Central Daylight Time, 
mythtech(a)mac.com writes:

...
  I think there
was exactly one product from Apple that plugged into
the floppy port - a 20MB disk that required strange drivers.  I
don't recall the part number, but when Apple came out with a 20MB
SCSI disk, they called it the "20SC" or something similar (IIRC)
to distinguish it from the older product.  
 The floppy port one was called the Hard Disk 20 (Hard Drive 20?? damn, I 
 always screw that up). You are right on the SCSI one (20SC). And there is 
 a 2nd product that I am aware of Apple made for the floppy port. An 
 external 400k floppy drive. They may have made other external floppies 
 for the Mac that use the floppy port as well (800k maybe, but I don't 
 think they made a 1.44 external)

 There were of course other floppy drives made for floppy ports on the 
 IIgs, but I don't know if that is the same functionality, so I don't know 
 if those could have been used on the Mac.

The hard drive was called an HD20. I have a mac 512k that uses it. About a 
fast as a floppy drive, but at least it held 20megs worth. 
You couldnt chain a floppy drive off the HD20 though. 