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|    Richard VanHouten to Tom Lake    |
|    Re: 360K or 180K disk drives    |
|    20 Jan 07 13:59:46    |
      From: richvh@citlink.net              Tom Lake wrote:       >> MECI.com has (still had the last time I looked) single sided 180k 3.5"       >> drives. It was such an oddball thing I picked one up, but have never       >> tried it out. No idea what it was designed for regarding tpi and       >> sectors. Definitely has only one head.       >>       >> Don't recall any system using a 3.5" drive at only 180k capacity. The       >> drive mounting bracket came with two round SPST momentary contact       >> switches mounted on it. Weird.       >>       >> Might that be of any interest to anyone? If they are I'll check MECI and       >> see if they still have them listed.       >       >       >       > Yes, they're there @ $4.95 US. I've never heard of 3.5" 180K disk       > drives either.       > I wonder what company used them!       >       > Tom Lake              I seem to recall that the original Mac floppy drives were 3.5" 180k       drives. If these are those, they won't be compatible with anything else.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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