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Hello Jasen - 

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JB>>> I haven't looke closeley enough to see if it has an eject
JB>>> motor... 

CA>> I've had 2 PS/2s here. One was the 80286 and the other was
CA>> the 80386sx. Neither had motorized eject but they did have
CA>> a spring that tossed the floppy halfway out of the drive
CA>> when you pushed the eject button. :-) 

JB> The apple drives I have here work on a similar principle
JB> the eject is string-loaded the motor only unlatches the
JB> spring. the motor complete with reduction gear is about the
JB> size of a cube of sugar. 

You just said you hadn't looked? 

OK, it's possible there was a sugar cube sized motor that
unlatched the spring in the PS/2's (I never looked and no, I
won't change that statement later I tossed both of them). 

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