Phipli
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The LC III came fitted with two different floppy drives, the manual inject and auto inject. They changed the case between them. If your LC III has a smooth face it has the later manual inject, if it has a single groove across the front it has the older manual inject. Both drives are a 1.44MB drive.Does anyone know if the Mac LC III floppy drive is the same 800k drive as the one in the Plus? Or is it a 1.44mb or something? I don't know much about floppies. It looks like a very healthy drive so I was wondering if I could swap it once I have the Plus.
The older style drive will probably fit the Plus and even work as an 800k drive I believe, but... I'd probably try and find an 800k drive for it if I had to. But, drives are usually repairable, so I'd expect to repair rather than replace, assuming the drive isn't missing. Especially as any replacement is just as likely to need work.
The newer style drives aren't ideal for older machines. The slot is at the right height and you can't easily push the disk in far enough for the drive to accept it (where they're fitted stock, the later drive openings have "lips" so you can push your finger in - the older drives don't have the lips and the drive itself takes the disk off you, hence auto-inject).