not a usb 1 a 1 that would be hmm maybe under the cdrom drive.
and can i put a zip drive to a emac ?
thnx for any help given.
Not unless you work out some freaky way to put an internal floppy on a usb port - there are no motherboard sockets for an internal floppy to plug into. In other words: I really doubt if. There probably isn't even room, and only god himself, in his infinite wisdom, knows what it would do to the cooling dynamics within the machine.
Not to mention the bit where you'd have to cut a f**king great hole in your shiny machine for the sake of saving about 5 square cm. of desk space.
You might get better replies in the future if people can read your posts and understand what you're saying. I see you are from Israel; so, I hope you would remember that there are a *lot* of international readers here at AppleInsider from Europe, Asia, and Australia and that it's not so easy for many people to translate "leet speak" into their native language, be it German, French, etc.
That said, you aren't going to be able to install a floppy drive internally to your computer without destroying it first. A brief history lesson: There aren't even connections on the motherboard for one. Floppies died (in Apple's perspective) six years ago. Floppies were dropped for the same reason legacy ports were dropped; it was the only way to force new technologies to be adopted. Apple has often been cited as the computer manufacturer that sparked the push to USB because of that. Recently, even some PC manufacturers have started dropping floppy drives from their boxes. I can't remember the last notebook I saw with a floppy drive.
Anyhow, I would also suggest getting the external floppy drive that a_greer posted.
i thought i would need a floppy with my emac, so i got an external one. i've used it maybe 3 times. you'd be surprised how little you'll use it, so dont pay too much.
I recently discovered I have one (belonging to my father for his laptop) lying around. A friend had an exel file he wanted me to make the graphs for. When I asked him why he didn't just mail it to me, he went a little silent.
All this just to say that there probably are better things to buy then a floppy drive.
You might get better replies in the future if people can read your posts and understand what you're saying. I see you are from Israel; so, I hope you would remember that there are a *lot* of international readers here at AppleInsider from Europe, Asia, and Australia and that it's not so easy for many people to translate "leet speak" into their native language, be it German, French, etc.
That said, you aren't going to be able to install a floppy drive internally to your computer without destroying it first. A brief history lesson: There aren't even connections on the motherboard for one. Floppies died (in Apple's perspective) six years ago. Floppies were dropped for the same reason legacy ports were dropped; it was the only way to force new technologies to be adopted. Apple has often been cited as the computer manufacturer that sparked the push to USB because of that. Recently, even some PC manufacturers have started dropping floppy drives from their boxes. I can't remember the last notebook I saw with a floppy drive.
Anyhow, I would also suggest getting the external floppy drive that a_greer posted.
+ it doesnt sends international and israel isnt a country of the u.s.a
+ it doesnt sends international and israel isnt a country of the u.s.a
SORRY ABOUT MY GOD DAM ENGLISH
Dude, it's not that bad ? it's certainly better than my Hebrew (or my French, or my Latin for that matter). Don't worry about people who get upset by minor spelling/grammatical errors ? I think the gist of your point was conveyed adequately.
[btw: you'll have to forgive me for the assumption that English is not your first language ? apologies in advance if this is not in fact the case]
Just get a USB flash drive, if you want it for yourself to transfer small amounts of data around. It'll cost you about the same as the drive for about 32 to 64MB, on something a lot smaller...
If you want it for compatibility with other people - it's time to persuade them to upgrade...
Actually, Mike is right. For $40 or so, you can get a USB floppy drive, right? 1.4MB. For roughly the same - give or take, I know - you can get one of those cool USB "thumb drives" that are getting to be so popular now. We're talking 32, 64 or 128MB of storage!
And, no worrying about if so-and-so has a floppy drive on their computer (aren't most newer PCs coming without floppy drives?).
But seems like most everyone - on both sides of the platform fence - has USB. Apple has for the past five years or so. I'd imagine PCs as well.
If it's a matter of getting data off of some old floppies ( a situation I ran into several years ago), I simply took them to work and, during my lunch break, stuck all the floppies in to an older beige G3, put everything into a folder on the desktop and burned that folder (was about 8-10MB total) to one CD (we had a Lacie SCSI CD-RW drive...4x...wheee!).
Brought that CD home and pulled off anything I needed to my new iMac.
From that point on, I never once needed - or wanted - a floppy. Good riddance! I'm on broadband, as is EVERYONE else I know, so I figured anything that could fit onto a floppy disk (<1.4MB) can simply be e-mailed.
I can think of about 762 things I'd buy with $40 other than a USB floppy drive.
Hacker, do you have access to a set-up like I described for myself (where you can get your data off a floppy and burned to a CD?). Once you do that (and get one of those USB thumb drives) I couldn't imagine you using the floppy drive that much. Even PC people I know are using thumb drives, burning CDs or using e-mail to store and transport those smaller, floppy-friendly files.
The place I currently work, they (a couple of years ago, before I was even around) bought TWO of those VST USB floppy drives (with the cool interchangeable color plates in the iMac colors) at about $89 a pop.
They SIT IN A CABINET, both of them, and since I've been there (last May) have not been used ONCE by me. My co-worker doesn't use them either, and he's the one that bought them (why he bought two, I'll never know). He obviously didn't stick his finger in the wind to see which way the wind was blowing...or paid attention to the utter LACK of floppy drives included on new computers. We've got two $180 hunks of useless (but cool-looking) plastic sitting there, taking up space.
And, no worrying about if so-and-so has a floppy drive on their computer (aren't most newer PCs coming without floppy drives?).
[snip]
Nope. No one except for Dell gets it. The higher end Dells no longer ship with floppy drives as standard equipment, you have to get it BTO if you want one.
Floppies suck. They were obsolete years and years ago and Apple was the only company that got it. But Apple seems to be the only company that ever gets it.
hmmm but why doesnt apple make computers with floppys? even the ibook doesnt have one and i have a old software that is compatable with mac os 8 by the way would it work with clasic?
and please forgive me for my english as soon as my emac ships here im going to use the spell currection system , and for those who understand me thnx :P
aslong as were talking about emac does some one have a ram expending guide? beacuse "yeda(apple in my country)" dont give lab support i saw this guide on google but its in chinise so thnx for any one that would help me.
hmmm but why doesnt apple make computers with floppys? even the ibook doesnt have one
Because:
(1) it's unreliable ? floppy discs often corrupt, break etc.;
(2) it's useless ? for the tiny amount of data you can fit on a floppy, there are much better alternatives, such as: network transfer by the transfer protocol of your choice, alternative storage media (flash drives, zip, external HD, CD etc.)
(3) they realised that the only reason any sane person would use floppies is because they're ubiquitous; make them non-ubiquitous and people would work out the other, better ways.
or something like that. This may be putting the cart of rationality before the horse of saving a few dollars, however.
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and i have a old software that is compatable with mac os 8 by the way would it work with clasic?
With very few exceptions, yes. You may run into problems with some software which attempts to use really ancient networking code (like early 90s vintage: alas, NetTrek is solidly in the past now) or which are 256 colours. Some games perform a little? strangely under Classic, although this is much improved in Panther, in my experience.
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and please forgive me for my english as soon as my emac ships here im going to use the spell currection system , and for those who understand me thnx :P
Seriously, it's not that hard (to understand you).
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Originally posted by hack4ev3r
can you add a-floopy drive to a emac ?
not a usb 1 a 1 that would be hmm maybe under the cdrom drive.
and can i put a zip drive to a emac ?
thnx for any help given.
Not unless you work out some freaky way to put an internal floppy on a usb port - there are no motherboard sockets for an internal floppy to plug into. In other words: I really doubt if. There probably isn't even room, and only god himself, in his infinite wisdom, knows what it would do to the cooling dynamics within the machine.
Not to mention the bit where you'd have to cut a f**king great hole in your shiny machine for the sake of saving about 5 square cm. of desk space.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...1000&CatId=287
Originally posted by hack4ev3r
can you add a-floopy drive to a emac ?
To save you any future embarrassment, it's spelt:
FLOPPY
Originally posted by Jambo
To save you any future embarrassment, it's spelt:
Please, kack4ev3r, use this:
You might get better replies in the future if people can read your posts and understand what you're saying. I see you are from Israel; so, I hope you would remember that there are a *lot* of international readers here at AppleInsider from Europe, Asia, and Australia and that it's not so easy for many people to translate "leet speak" into their native language, be it German, French, etc.
That said, you aren't going to be able to install a floppy drive internally to your computer without destroying it first. A brief history lesson: There aren't even connections on the motherboard for one. Floppies died (in Apple's perspective) six years ago. Floppies were dropped for the same reason legacy ports were dropped; it was the only way to force new technologies to be adopted. Apple has often been cited as the computer manufacturer that sparked the push to USB because of that. Recently, even some PC manufacturers have started dropping floppy drives from their boxes. I can't remember the last notebook I saw with a floppy drive.
Anyhow, I would also suggest getting the external floppy drive that a_greer posted.
All this just to say that there probably are better things to buy then a floppy drive.
My 2 cents
Originally posted by Brad
Please, kack4ev3r, use this:
You might get better replies in the future if people can read your posts and understand what you're saying. I see you are from Israel; so, I hope you would remember that there are a *lot* of international readers here at AppleInsider from Europe, Asia, and Australia and that it's not so easy for many people to translate "leet speak" into their native language, be it German, French, etc.
That said, you aren't going to be able to install a floppy drive internally to your computer without destroying it first. A brief history lesson: There aren't even connections on the motherboard for one. Floppies died (in Apple's perspective) six years ago. Floppies were dropped for the same reason legacy ports were dropped; it was the only way to force new technologies to be adopted. Apple has often been cited as the computer manufacturer that sparked the push to USB because of that. Recently, even some PC manufacturers have started dropping floppy drives from their boxes. I can't remember the last notebook I saw with a floppy drive.
Anyhow, I would also suggest getting the external floppy drive that a_greer posted.
+ it doesnt sends international and israel isnt a country of the u.s.a
SORRY ABOUT MY GOD DAM ENGLISH
Originally posted by hack4ev3r
+ it doesnt sends international and israel isnt a country of the u.s.a
SORRY ABOUT MY GOD DAM ENGLISH
Dude, it's not that bad ? it's certainly better than my Hebrew (or my French, or my Latin for that matter). Don't worry about people who get upset by minor spelling/grammatical errors ? I think the gist of your point was conveyed adequately.
[btw: you'll have to forgive me for the assumption that English is not your first language ? apologies in advance if this is not in fact the case]
If you want it for compatibility with other people - it's time to persuade them to upgrade...
And, no worrying about if so-and-so has a floppy drive on their computer (aren't most newer PCs coming without floppy drives?).
But seems like most everyone - on both sides of the platform fence - has USB. Apple has for the past five years or so. I'd imagine PCs as well.
If it's a matter of getting data off of some old floppies ( a situation I ran into several years ago), I simply took them to work and, during my lunch break, stuck all the floppies in to an older beige G3, put everything into a folder on the desktop and burned that folder (was about 8-10MB total) to one CD (we had a Lacie SCSI CD-RW drive...4x...wheee!).
Brought that CD home and pulled off anything I needed to my new iMac.
From that point on, I never once needed - or wanted - a floppy. Good riddance! I'm on broadband, as is EVERYONE else I know, so I figured anything that could fit onto a floppy disk (<1.4MB) can simply be e-mailed.
I can think of about 762 things I'd buy with $40 other than a USB floppy drive.
Hacker, do you have access to a set-up like I described for myself (where you can get your data off a floppy and burned to a CD?). Once you do that (and get one of those USB thumb drives) I couldn't imagine you using the floppy drive that much. Even PC people I know are using thumb drives, burning CDs or using e-mail to store and transport those smaller, floppy-friendly files.
The place I currently work, they (a couple of years ago, before I was even around) bought TWO of those VST USB floppy drives (with the cool interchangeable color plates in the iMac colors) at about $89 a pop.
They SIT IN A CABINET, both of them, and since I've been there (last May) have not been used ONCE by me. My co-worker doesn't use them either, and he's the one that bought them (why he bought two, I'll never know). He obviously didn't stick his finger in the wind to see which way the wind was blowing...or paid attention to the utter LACK of floppy drives included on new computers. We've got two $180 hunks of useless (but cool-looking) plastic sitting there, taking up space.
Originally posted by pscates
[snip]
And, no worrying about if so-and-so has a floppy drive on their computer (aren't most newer PCs coming without floppy drives?).
[snip]
Nope. No one except for Dell gets it. The higher end Dells no longer ship with floppy drives as standard equipment, you have to get it BTO if you want one.
Floppies suck. They were obsolete years and years ago and Apple was the only company that got it. But Apple seems to be the only company that ever gets it.
and please forgive me for my english as soon as my emac ships here im going to use the spell currection system , and for those who understand me thnx :P
Originally posted by hack4ev3r
hmmm but why doesnt apple make computers with floppys? even the ibook doesnt have one
Because:
(1) it's unreliable ? floppy discs often corrupt, break etc.;
(2) it's useless ? for the tiny amount of data you can fit on a floppy, there are much better alternatives, such as: network transfer by the transfer protocol of your choice, alternative storage media (flash drives, zip, external HD, CD etc.)
(3) they realised that the only reason any sane person would use floppies is because they're ubiquitous; make them non-ubiquitous and people would work out the other, better ways.
or something like that. This may be putting the cart of rationality before the horse of saving a few dollars, however.
and i have a old software that is compatable with mac os 8 by the way would it work with clasic?
With very few exceptions, yes. You may run into problems with some software which attempts to use really ancient networking code (like early 90s vintage: alas, NetTrek is solidly in the past now) or which are 256 colours. Some games perform a little? strangely under Classic, although this is much improved in Panther, in my experience.
and please forgive me for my english as soon as my emac ships here im going to use the spell currection system , and for those who understand me thnx :P
Seriously, it's not that hard (to understand you).