Re: Apple Floppy Drives

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From: jlhickle
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:24

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Homer J Simpson wrote:
> <jlhickle@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1143571790.554761.56450@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
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> > Did the Apple 400k or 800k floppies use standard 40 and 80 track
> > drives?
> > I'm mean the drive itself, not the controller, and don't want to
> > read/write Apple formatted disks.
>
> The drive is a normal drive, but AFAIK they could all half step.

Thank you!

I was thinking that old Apples would be a source of drives with cases.
I bought some SCSI drive cases with power supplies that hold two
drives,
so these might be a cheap and easy third drive.

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