<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Lars:
My Beige G3 has a 1.44 MB floppy drive in it, but, you guessed, I haven't touched it yet. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Funnily enough the 1.44 floppy drive was the first thing to fail in my G3 (the original 233 desktop).
After that the Cd-ROM drive went out, with much noise.
I have been using an external CD-ROM drive on the G3, and never bothered about the floppy.
These things are dust bunny magnets, too!
I used to complain when I had to take PC's apart, because they would be filthy inside (I have a few stories about dust!). mac's are generally cleaner, except for the floppy innards. Once they added the floppy drive gate, that helped. Somewhat.
Speaking about floppies, the drive for one of my first computers (a Sol) weighed about 60 lbs.
and had cute glass parts inside. It was about 1.5 times the size of my G4. 8 inch floppies.
Those were the days!
Cheers,
G/<