Jujul98 Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 I've found a Macintosh SE with 2 floppy drive. On the front we can read Macintosh FDHD (see picture 1) On the rear, the model is M5010. (see picture 2) The serial Number corresponds to a FDHD model. (see picture 2) They are 2 x 1.44MB Floppy drives (see picture 3) The motherboard seems to be FDHD. (see picture 4) Does anyone has any information? See pictures below: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
unity Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 Im not sure what is odd about this. Its just a dual floppy SE. While the 800ks were common in dual setup, the FDHDs were also available in dual floppy setups. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tanuki65 Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 I have very similar! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Elfen Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Nothing strange about it. Nothing at all. The SE is one of the few rare Macs that can have 3 floppy drives when it has 2 internal like this and the third one is external. I seen hacks of keeping the 2 floppy drives and a hard drive added to it (besides the floppy drives). With Floppy Emu and a SD or CF to SCSI would be great for this unit. Its a great little machine. Clean it up, lube up the drives, slap in 4mb of RAM and get that puppy howling! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott Baret Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 These are very common. I have one just like it, except mine is a US model. The only thing I noticed different about this particular Mac was the German text on the rear bucket. I've never seen one but could make sense of it since I took German in high school Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BadGoldEagle Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 I seen hacks of keeping the 2 floppy drives and a hard drive added to it (besides the floppy drives). With Floppy Emu and a SD or CF to SCSI would be great for this unit. yep here's a picture of the hack in question (from vectronics): I thought M5010s only had 800k drives... But you just proved me wrong. Good to know that. I believe these are rather rare. In 1989 (when your SE was made) I think everybody at that point chose Hard Disk versions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compgeke Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Nice find on a dual Superdrive model factory. That with a hard drive would be a fun machine, particularly if you need something small to write 800K disks. Copy disk images to a 1.44 meg disk and write on an 800K in the 2nd drive. Here's another take on the HDD in a dual floppy, but slightly lower profile than BadGoldEagle's: http://i.imgur.com/2O0LKea.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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