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On Thu, 15 May 2003 20:44:15 GMT, chris@invalid.com (CHRIS MORSE)
wrote:

If fixing myself, is there any way to replace the internal 3.5" drive
with some Macintosh model drive?

// CHRIS

Well, I've searched around for a used Mac SE or mac 800k drives that I
can use with my Apple //c+. Very little luck.

Then it dawned on me! I've got a couple of those extern 3.5" A9MO106
drives here that I was going to use as externals. Surely they are
compatible!

All it took was a screw driver and about 20 minutes to disassemble the
//c+, the //c+'s internal 3.5" drive and the external 3.5" A9MO106
drive, swap the actual drive mechanisms, re-plug-in everything, and
screw the //c+ back up. Threw away the bad drive and the A9MO106
housing.

Turned the //c+ on, and voila! Boots just fine!

Now, unfortunately, the only 3.5" bootable disk I had was eaten by the
bad drive. Wahhh!!!!! (Sound of me whinning like a baby...)

I've got a couple alternatives though.. I did pick up a Mac Performa
450 from eBay that I have yet to find a spot for and set up. Along
with that, I got a brand new Apple //e card from someone on eBay. I'm
hoping that I can get the Performa running, the //e card running, and
can install whatever is necessary to get the Performa to read/write
ProDOS disks. That would be cool, then I could make my own bootable
disks. I even scarfed a bunch of 800k DS/DD disks from work.

So since no one else mentioned it that I could recall or see:

"You can replace the internal 3.5" drive mechanism on an Apple //c+
with the mechanism inside an extern 3.5" drive model A9MO106. It just
takes a screw driver and about 20 minutes to do."

Cheers!
// CHRIS


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"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message news:20030727034640.24610.00000496@mb-m28.aol.com...

Chris Morse wrote:

<snip>

All it took was a screw driver and about 20 minutes to disassemble the >//c+, the //c+'s internal 3.5" drive and the external 3.5" A9MO106
drive, swap the actual drive mechanisms, re-plug-in everything, and
screw the //c+ back up. Threw away the bad drive and the A9MO106
housing.

<snip>

I hope you didn't literally throw the housing away. ;-(

In many parts of the world, drives are much more plentiful than
the housing. It could be re-fitted with another 800K drive or with
a 1.4M "Superdisk" and be quite useful with the appropriate
controller.

No kidding, I would buy just the housing for $5 easily.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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