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SmartDisk II now speaks Macintosh: MOOF images, in read and write

The SmartDisk II is no longer an Apple II only story. With the latest firmware, the same little board plugs into the external floppy port of a Macintosh and becomes an external 800K drive: it boots, reads, writes and even initializes disks, straight from images on an SD card.

A Macintosh SE with the SmartDisk II plugged into its external floppy port
The SmartDisk II in its case, with the ribbon cable

Give your Macintosh a working floppy drive again

Many compact Macs still work perfectly, but their floppy drive no longer does, and the original disks are long gone or unreadable. The SmartDisk II solves both problems at once: it plays the part of an Apple external 800K drive, and your disks are now files on an SD card.

  • Boot the Macintosh from a disk image: leave the internal drive empty and the Mac starts from the SmartDisk II.
  • Read and write: copy files, save documents, and Initialize a blank disk from the Finder. Everything the Mac writes goes back into
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