And the idea of a floppy drive that doesn’t have auto-inject is just sacrilege.
Auto inject was gone from Macs well before this model so it wasn't directly connected to the cheapness of this thing.
Auto inject was gone from Macs well before this model so it wasn't directly connected to the cheapness of this thing.
The first 3.5” drive I ever had was in an LC II. Before that I had only used a 5.25 in a PC XT or something like that. Being able to have it suck a disc in or ejecting a disc and having it pop out with that great mechanical noise was fantastic.
Because my age I thought all drives were like that. The first time I used a Windows PC (3.0?) I was surprised that you had to push the disc in by hand and that it didn’t just show up on the desktop in Windows. I had to be introduced to the concept of drive letters. Seemed relatively barbaric to young me.
Of course within about two years I was asking for my own PC for all the great games. So that didn’t last all that long.