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Posted by: Bolle on 2007-05-03 11:42:23
take a look...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21088395@N00/482926765/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21088395@N00/482926757/
anyone else of you have some of these laying around?
I wonder why apple chose such an ugly colour...
bolle. 😛
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Posted by: The Macster on 2007-05-03 11:48:12
I have one, as my Mac Plus came with the little cardboard box with all the documentation and bits inside 🙂 Which models of Mac did it come with, do you know? You don't tend to see them that often; I guess a lot of people just threw them away.
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Posted by: Bolle on 2007-05-03 11:50:40
I got mine together with my classic. I dunno if it came originally with it, but I think so cause the seller of the classic said that he doesn´t know anything about macs and never had one before... so I suppose it´s original.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2007-05-03 12:21:32
Never seen one of those.
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2007-05-03 12:23:50
800K drives, if I recall, came with these.
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Posted by: wally on 2007-05-03 13:08:09
I have one, and I think it came with my SE/30.
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Posted by: oldappleguy on 2007-05-03 13:58:17
the macs shipped with this in the floppy drive to protect it during shipping.
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Posted by: MacMan on 2007-05-03 17:37:01
It stops the read / write heads in the drive from banging together in transit. It is a good idea to use one of these if you are moving a Mac, but if you don't have one then an old floppy disk (ie. one you don't want) will suffice.
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2007-05-03 19:46:08
^^ Agreed, I usually tell people shipping them on eBay to put an old disk in the drive. It almost always winds up being a disk that won't format.
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Posted by: MacJunky on 2007-05-04 23:37:32
What about an old head cleaning disk? Or would that have accumulated too much junk during it's life and potentially cause damage?
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Posted by: tomlee59 on 2007-05-05 00:29:27
That would be fine too. It's soft, which is the main property you care about. At worst, the heads could get dirty (which is also potentially the case if you use a floppy). Easy to clean if that does happen.
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Posted by: luddite on 2007-05-05 15:31:58
I have one... don't know where it came from, but it is the same hideous colour.
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-05-05 17:36:13
I have one... don't know where it came from, but it is the same hideous colour. whats wrong with yellow??
i've got one or two of them lying around somewheres...
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Posted by: luddite on 2007-05-05 18:46:18
I have one... don't know where it came from, but it is the same hideous colour. whats wrong with yellow??
It's just not a very nice yellow... maybe if it had a bit more orange to it, or was more of an ochre I wouldn't mind it.
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Posted by: luddite on 2007-05-05 22:53:19
Here's one on eBay! |
Posted by: Charlieman on 2007-05-09 12:07:29
It's just not a very nice yellow... maybe if it had a bit more orange to it, or was more of an ochre I wouldn't mind it. You are intended to be offended by the colour. Had it been a pleasant beige that blended in with the Mac, purchasers may have confused it with something useful. Twenty odd years ago, purchasers of computers of all types were even less knowledgeable than today.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-05-09 13:16:14
take a look...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21088395@N00/482926765/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21088395@N00/482926757/
anyone else of you have some of these laying around?
I wonder why apple chose such an ugly colour...
bolle. 😛 There's one for sale on ebay now. I don't have the link, though.
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Posted by: II2II on 2007-05-09 13:17:33
I have (or at least had) one of those things. But I think mine came from IBM. I was always a bit dubious about its value. The read/write heads on floppies (particularly the ones Apple used) are separated by quite a distance and it would take quite a bit of force to flex them that far. So it probably could not do much in that respect. Sticking one of those into a drive would pretty much mean the read/write heads would be vibrating against a surface, even under minor jostling.
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2007-05-09 18:28:29
The color doesn't really bother me. Think Crayola yellow. It's sort of like that.
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