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Today a friend of mine and her husband gave me a PPC Mac treasure trove!

1. 3 Pro keyboards
2. White wired Apple keyboard
3. 6 unopened boxes of 5.25" floppy disks
4. 1 5.25" floppy disk cleaner
5. 3 unopened boxes of 2HD 3.5" floppy disks
6. 3 AVerKey300 Gold (1 unopened and shrink-wrapped
7. 2 HP JetDirect 300Xs
8. 6 serial port male-female adapters
9. tons of educational software as well
10. a 120MB Imation Super disk
11. 11 unopened white Apple remotes

AND...I've been promised more as well including more mice and power cables and adapters, etc...

And all I have to do is clone a 2008 MBP to a 2012 and then get the 2008 running properly. It's awesome.
 
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RedCroissant said:
Today a friend of mine and her husband gave me a PPC Mac treasure trove!

1. 3 Pro keyboards
2. White wired Apple keyboard
3. 6 unopened boxes of 5.25" floppy disks
4. 1 5.25" floppy disk cleaner
5. 3 unopened boxes of 2HD 3.5" floppy disks
6. 3 AVerKey300 Gold (1 unopened and shrink-wrapped
7. 2 HP JetDirect 300Xs
8. 6 serial port male-female adapters
9. tons of educational software as well
10. a 120MB Imation Super disk
11. 11 unopened white Apple remotes

AND...I've been promised more as well including more mice and power cables and adapters, etc...

And all I have to do is clone a 2008 MBP to a 2012 and then get the 2008 running properly. It's awesome.
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Sounds like someone is dumping their trash on you and calling it a gift ;)
 
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5 1/4" disks are getting tough to find these days-I'd be quite happy :)

Granted, Macintoshes never used 5 1/4" drives(save for the IIe card that could be fit to the LC and some others) but if nothing else they're good trading fodder for stuff like DD 3 1/2".
 
bunnspecial said:
Granted, Macintoshes never used 5 1/4" drives(save for the IIe card that could be fit to the LC and some others).
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Whoa there. There was a card and external drive available to make a II or SE able to read/write PC floppies. I have the SE version. Long since past being useful.
 
 
weckart said:
There were definitely Apple 5.25" drives.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-APPLE-II-DISK-II-DRIVE-2-5-25-FLOPPY-DISK-DRIVE-/321921525787

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1...ive-Model-A9M0107-Owners-Manual-/252116752284

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOT-OF-2-Apple-II-5-25-Floppy-Disk-II-Drive-A2M0003-Vintage-/252176095047

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-E...-Floppy-Disk-Drive-TESTED-WORKS-/381414539706

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-APPLE-II-FLOPPY-DRIVE-AP14-/191735154032

plenty more on the bay plus contemporaneous software in the same disk format.
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Are those not all Apple II drives, though? I know Apple made 5 1/4" drives, but plugging one into the floppy port on a Mac was a good way to fry things. You can plug an Apple II drive into a IIe card, but that's the only way I know of to use one of those with a Macintosh.

DZ/015 said:
Whoa there. There was a card and external drive available to make a II or SE able to read/write PC floppies. I have the SE version. Long since past being useful.
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I wasn't aware of this-I'd be interested in finding one for no other reason than curiosity.
 
They're Apple II drives...

Bunn is correct - some 68k Macs could used those linked via an Apple II compatibility add in card.

EDIT : beaten to it!
 
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