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Apple 3.5 Drive External Floppy Drive Teardown

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Apple 3.5 Drive External Floppy Drive Teardown, The Apple 3.5 Drive: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:01crwdnd2935265:02crwdne2935265:0 Apple 3.5 Drive External Floppy Drive Teardown, The Apple 3.5 Drive: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:02crwdnd2935265:02crwdne2935265:0
The Apple 3.5 Drive
  • On front from left to right it has an Activity LED, the floppy slot, and a soft eject button to engage the electronic eject function of the floppy drive.

  • The eject button has a hole at its center through which the user can insert a paperclip to manual eject a stuck floppy.

  • At back from left to right is the pass through 19-pin connector for daisy-chaining more drives, a plastic loop for a kensington lock, and the hardwired cable for plugging into the computer or earlier drive in the chain.

  • When new this drive came with a plastic cover over the daisy-chain port. It is very rare to find a drive that still has this cover, though if one is present it can be removed with a flat tip screw driver.

  • [IMPORTANT]Apple floppy drives should never be connected or disconnected while the computer is on as it can damage the floppy controller on the computer's logic board.

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