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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.   
      
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