Modding Mac floppy drive?

I didnt get a floppy drive when I bought my comp, but now I need one and I dont want to buy one. This is because when I took apart a mac lying in my basement, I pulled a mac floppy drive out.

The problem is that the foppy drive is a mac drive...apart from being digusting yellowish white, it doesnt have the eject button all windows floppy drives have. When I hooked it up, it reads and writes data fine but I cant get it to frigging eject floppy disks...it's pissing me off and I wanna know if there's a way to mod the floppy so it works with windows?:wacko:

i bought 9 floppy drives for 3 bucks each at a computer show last weekend...they all work good too (hp brand)
they had dvd rom drives for 8 bucks bought 2 of those...good to have just in case

Even if you buy a new one at 20 bucks, the labor time you spend modding the mac-floppy is more than enough to cover the price of a new one. Your time is also worth money....

Or you can just keep inserting a paper clip into the pin-hole. Personally, I don't like inserting something metal into an electrical appliance.

You just need to learn to appropriate Mac keyboard shortcuts.

To eject the floppy hit> Ctrl+Alt+BITEME.

This requires exceptional manual dexterity but that's what makes Mac users so special.

Mac users are also special, because they are getting ripped off...and are the true losers in the world

can u eject it via my computer? If you right click the icon when there is a floppy in it it may have the option to eject like cd/dvd drives do.

how exactly do you get the disk to come out now? Like it has been said, floppy drives are cheap- I have five of them sitting around in my dorm room that i pulled out of old computers for free.
BTW- Macs suck- one time I almost walked ten minutes across campus to use a computer to type something because the only computer lab in the area was a mac lab.

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Originally Posted by Tempestv

how exactly do you get the disk to come out now? Like it has been said, floppy drives are cheap- I have five of them sitting around in my dorm room that i pulled out of old computers for free.
BTW- Macs suck- one time I almost walked ten minutes across campus to use a computer to type something because the only computer lab in the area was a mac lab.

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What do you mean by "I almost walked ten minutes across campus..."

Did you or didn't you?

I started to walk to the comp lab, then remembered that it was a mac lab, and considered going back to my dorm to not have to use a mac. I ended up working in the lab, although in hindsight, I realize that I spent twenty minutes trying to get the damn mac to work right before I could begin working, about the time it would have taken me to walk to my room and walk back.

Ah currently I'm inserting a pin to push the floppy out, and the "eject" function doesnt show up when I right click on drive A:.

Oh well, I'm not using it that much anyways, and if i do ever use it more frequently, I think i'll just buy a real windows floppy drive.

Oh btw, macs do suck...not because they suck as not having enough processing powers, but because they're just so goddamn expensive...A windows machine usually has 50% more power compared to a Mac at the same price. I've even seen a Mac overprice a Compaq desktop by 100%. (Mac was G5 2.0ghz, 512mb, x600xt, 17inch LCD, 160GB HD for $1999, Compaq was x64 3700+, 1 gig ram, 250GB HD, 19inch LCD @ $999.)

mac os sucks too- they got some weird way of doing every thing, and there is only that way.