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Is this a Lisa2 Floppy drive?

Submitted by danamania on April 16, 2006 - 9:19am. 680x0 Macs and Lisa

In among my various hauls comes all kinds of parts I put aside to identify later - and this is one of them.

It's a 3.5" floppy drive, with "ASCO November 1984" printed on a label on the side. It's taller than a 5.25" CDROm all up, but only about as wide as a normal 3.5" floppy unit from a more modern Apple. It looks similar (but not identical) to some other Lisa2 3.5" floppy drives I've seen in photos online, mostly differing in the aluminium cover - the rest looks pretty similar.

It seems completely seized up unfortunately - unless it needs power applied to allow any of it to run, it won't take a floppy more than about 2/3 in before hitting that bar that should open the slider, which doesn't budge.

http://www.danamania.com/temp/oddfloppy.jpg has a few pictures of it. I could take more photos from other angles if it's needed for a positive ID.

thanks,
dana

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ungh. a clickable link now -

Submitted by danamania on April 16, 2006 - 9:25am.

ungh. a clickable link now - Photos of the drive

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Looks like one to me. At leas

Submitted by Krest on April 16, 2006 - 11:30am.

Looks like one to me. At least it can't be a Mac-Drive since the Macs always used the smaller Sony FDDs

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might be an external 400k fdd

Submitted by FunnymanSE30 on April 16, 2006 - 1:22pm.

might be an external 400k fdd model 0130 (iirc)
i have one like it.

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Definitely M130

Submitted by charlieman on April 17, 2006 - 2:03pm.

Yes, it's an M130 external floppy drive without the plastic case and connector cable. The aluminium case is the RF shield (Apple tended to be a bit over the top with some of their engineering!).

The actual drive mechanism is the same as the M130 in my photos at http://www.vintagemacworld.com/400klisa.html but it will also work in a Lisa 2. Note that the bracketry etc for the Lisa 2 drive is totally different to that used in the Mac.

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