CD Drive for PowerBook 1400cs

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CD Drive for PowerBook 1400cs

I have a PowerBook 1400cs and want to put programs on it but my new computer does not have a floppy drive but does have a cd drive. I know that the floppy drive can come out and be replaced by a cd drive very easily (Apple made it so you could interchange them). Where can I get a CD Drive for it?

INFO: PowerBook 1400cs (1996) 64MB RAM, 1GB HDD, Floppy Drive, PC Card, Mac OS 7.5.3

Thanks for your help!

PowerBook, Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier, Mac OS 7.5.3 64MB Ram, Floppy Drive

Posted on Mar 22, 2014 8:23 PM

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dalstott

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Mar 23, 2014 8:44 AM in response to adambadura

In addition to eBay you might contact some of these sellers of old Mac pars. 🙂

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/

http://www.pbparts.com/

http://www.wegenermedia.com/

http://www.vintagemacworld.com/macmain.html

http://oldermac.hardsdisk.net/oldmac.html#hard

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Jan Hedlund

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Mar 23, 2014 12:13 PM in response to adambadura

Alternatively, you could use a CompactFlash card in an inexpensive PC Card adapter for CompactFlash for file transfers from a modern computer to the PowerBook 1400cs. There are also PC Card adapters for some other flash memory card types. The modern computer may be able to write directly to certain flash memory cards, or an external USB reader could be used.

If necessary, one can usually reformat a PC-formatted memory card to Mac without a problem. In this case, with System 7.5.3 on the PowerBook 1400cs, make sure that Mac OS Standard (HFS) is used on the memory card. Also, please note that it is not possible to write to Mac OS Standard (HFS) from a modern Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later.

It should be possible to transfer files on a PC-formatted card. Just keep any downloaded Mac application files unaltered as MacBinary (.bin), BinHex (.hqx), or StuffIt (.sit). Do not decode/decompress until on the PowerBook 1400cs.

Jan

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