I also had a Mac Plus with an external 20MB hard drive (this was late 1988). It wasn't the Apple HD20 [0] (which I had never heard of until now) but a 3rd party model, it used the Plus's SCSI port and had the same footprint so it sat underneath. I see Apple also made an HD20SC that used SCSI.
I didn't understand walrus01's comment to mean an external, rather than internal, hard drive.
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The Mac 128k was not from 1988. In that time frame, The Mac plus was the first really usable model with a 20MB HDD.
The Mac 128k is a different model, check out the floppy slot!
jayniz - all your comments on this post are dead, it looks like you may have been shadowbanned
(apologies for hijacking the comment!)
Well that explains why my post of this story got no upvotes. Thanks for telling me. No idea why my account would be shadowbanned. How do I unban it?
Anyways, here's my response to walrus01:
The Mac 128k is a different model, check out the floppy slot!
3 years ago you committed the offence of punning on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5144413
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FYI you can click on a dead comment's timestamp and vouch for it. May require a certain minimum karma to do that.
The Mac Plus didn't have a hard drive, the Mac SE did.
I had a Mac Plus with an Apple HD 20 hard drive.
It wasn't internal but it was made for the Plus.
It was an odd beast that connected to the external floppy connector.
I also had a Mac Plus with an external 20MB hard drive (this was late 1988). It wasn't the Apple HD20 [0] (which I had never heard of until now) but a 3rd party model, it used the Plus's SCSI port and had the same footprint so it sat underneath. I see Apple also made an HD20SC that used SCSI.
I didn't understand walrus01's comment to mean an external, rather than internal, hard drive.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Disk_20
Yes, but it was the first model with a SCSI port and commonly sold with an external HDD that it sat on top of.