Installing Card Reader in MPC2000

mr_debauch wrote:on ebay I checked and it seems like they are around 20 bucks each... zip disks though I didn't check ebay... but in general as they are quite common here are way cheaper. I wish it were the other way around... but I have never even seen anyone with an MO drive in person and I have been involved with computers for quite a few years.

you know what though? I may actually scoop one up if I can find an external one for cheap just for the experience of using them. for the most part the local listings in canada for them are around 150-180 bucks plus shipping but a few chinese sellers list them at 20 bucks with no shipping mentioned. that seems not too bad... except those are for internal scsi drives from what I've seen and I would prefer external personally.

I've been around various computers for long time (my first Mac is SE/30 8MB (yes, 8MB) with Raster Ops ColorBoard installed. I think extarnal hard drive's capacity was 200MB or something.) It was early 90s', before Windows 95. MO disk became popular among Mac users, but Zip was also popular that time. MO drive became hugely successful in Japan, probably due to the fact that it was standardized by Japanese companies (Fujitsu, etc.). Except slow writing speed, I liked MO back then, I never had data corruption with MO drive. The disks felt solid, physically, MO disks are kind of heavy. Syquest, JAZ, and Zip on the other hand, those were criminally fragile, not only disks, but drives too.

JVC wrote:

mr_debauch wrote:on ebay I checked and it seems like they are around 20 bucks each... zip disks though I didn't check ebay... but in general as they are quite common here are way cheaper. I wish it were the other way around... but I have never even seen anyone with an MO drive in person and I have been involved with computers for quite a few years.

you know what though? I may actually scoop one up if I can find an external one for cheap just for the experience of using them. for the most part the local listings in canada for them are around 150-180 bucks plus shipping but a few chinese sellers list them at 20 bucks with no shipping mentioned. that seems not too bad... except those are for internal scsi drives from what I've seen and I would prefer external personally.

I've been around various computers for long time (my first Mac is SE/30 8MB (yes, 8MB) with Raster Ops ColorBoard installed. I think extarnal hard drive's capacity was 200MB or something.) It was early 90s', before Windows 95. MO disk became popular among Mac users, but Zip was also popular that time. MO drive became hugely successful in Japan, probably due to the fact that it was standardized by Japanese companies (Fujitsu, etc.). Except slow writing speed, I liked MO back then, I never had data corruption with MO drive. The disks felt solid, physically, MO disks are kind of heavy. Syquest, JAZ, and Zip on the other hand, those were criminally fragile, not only disks, but drives too.

hell, I think even in europe the MO standard was more popular then here... I have seen a few syquest drives around but I wouldn't even bother going there. Now those cost a bit of cash these days... at least locally.

There is one other disk I am thinking about that I cant seem to remember any details about it... I knew one guy who had ONE disk like this... it was from what I remember him telling me as he showed me the disk.. it looked like a regular plain old floppy disk that went into what appeared to be a regular floppy drive on an imac in the late 90's.. except it apparently could hold 20 megs. I have not seen or heard of them since. (or noticed) .. have you heard of something like this?

Umm, I think I remember there was disk device that can read both regular 1.4MB floppy and more high capacity disk, which was same size as floppy disk. I think I only saw it on MacMall catalog or something like that.
There was a time (mid 90s'?) that so many data storage system were introduced.

JVC wrote:Umm, I think I remember there was disk device that can read both regular 1.4MB floppy and more high capacity disk, which was same size as floppy disk. I think I only saw it on MacMall catalog or something like that.
There was a time (mid 90s'?) that so many data storage system were introduced.

yeah, but this disk worked in the stock imac drive from what I remember... the guy used it to back up data that was on several regular floppies etc...