I wonder if two different teams designed them. It looked closer to the original Macintosh than the 800K external floppy drive from a design perspective. It was a lot of capacity for the time, but man, this was a slow device. Later on, besides the external 800K floppy, I got the Macintosh 20 MB hard disk which was based on a serial interface. The little boxy design felt a small departure compared to the Macintosh itself. It was a more technical sound, while the 400K was more organic. The new 800K floppy disk drive sounded differently when it was operating compared to the 400K version. As a result, the Mac was noticeably faster, but not by a wide margin. The updated ROM had an enhanced QuickDraw and added support for the higher capacity 800K floppy disk drive (which I later bought). The upgrade kit was, in fact, a motherboard replacement of the Macintosh with a more powerful one containing a “whopping” 1 MB of RAM, it came with an enhanced 128K ROM and a SCSI interface. It was a lot of money for a student like me. It was his way of teaching me the value of money. I remember my father paying for the upgrade, but only once I did get all the required money first. I bought the kit from the local authorized Apple dealer, for which I would eventually work as a salesperson. With Apple’s Macintosh Plus upgrade kits, I took the opportunity to upgrade mine. Owners of the original Macintosh could upgrade their machines and get the same features. The Macintosh 128K upgraded to a Macintosh Plus – same look but updated internals
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