The minidisk door is on the front of the drive; to insert a minidisk you need to flip up a lever. A light on the front of the drive turns on when the drive is in use. The gray interface card cable (about 29 inches long) is attached to the object through the top of the back panel. The red sticker on the back of the object reads "WARNING CONNECT THIS CABLE ONLY TO THE APPLE DISK II INTERFACE CARD" and "apple computer inc. 10260 BANDLEY DRIVE CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA 95014" and [serial number] and "MADE IN U.S.A." and "0359."