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| Strange Macintosh SE M5010 | |
| Posted by: Jujul98 on 2016-06-10 14:07:28 I've found a Macintosh SE with 2 floppy drive. On the front we can read Macintosh FDHD (see picture 1) On the rear, the model is M5010. (see picture 2) The serial Number corresponds to a FDHD model. (see picture 2) They are 2 x 1.44MB Floppy drives (see picture 3) The motherboard seems to be FDHD. (see picture 4) Does anyone has any information? See pictures below:     | |
| Posted by: unity on 2016-06-10 14:43:46 Im not sure what is odd about this. Its just a dual floppy SE. While the 800ks were common in dual setup, the FDHDs were also available in dual floppy setups. | |
| Posted by: tanuki65 on 2016-06-10 16:31:47 I have very similar! | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2016-06-10 18:54:50 Nothing strange about it. Nothing at all. The SE is one of the few rare Macs that can have 3 floppy drives when it has 2 internal like this and the third one is external. I seen hacks of keeping the 2 floppy drives and a hard drive added to it (besides the floppy drives). With Floppy Emu and a SD or CF to SCSI would be great for this unit. Its a great little machine. Clean it up, lube up the drives, slap in 4mb of RAM and get that puppy howling! | |
| Posted by: Scott Baret on 2016-06-10 20:34:23 These are very common. I have one just like it, except mine is a US model. The only thing I noticed different about this particular Mac was the German text on the rear bucket. I've never seen one but could make sense of it since I took German in high school 🙂 | |
Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2016-06-11 03:57:25I seen hacks of keeping the 2 floppy drives and a hard drive added to it (besides the floppy drives). With Floppy Emu and a SD or CF to SCSI would be great for this unit.yep here's a picture of the hack in question (from vectronics):  I thought M5010s only had 800k drives... But you just proved me wrong. Good to know that. 🙂 I believe these are rather rare. In 1989 (when your SE was made) I think everybody at that point chose Hard Disk versions. | |
| Posted by: Compgeke on 2016-06-11 10:57:18 Nice find on a dual Superdrive model factory. That with a hard drive would be a fun machine, particularly if you need something small to write 800K disks. Copy disk images to a 1.44 meg disk and write on an 800K in the 2nd drive. Here's another take on the HDD in a dual floppy, but slightly lower profile than BadGoldEagle's: http://i.imgur.com/2O0LKea.jpg | |
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