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Article #95Re: Re: Apple Floppy Drives
From: Stan Blazejewski
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:20
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:20
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On 28 Mar 2006 20:24:15 -0800, jlhickle@yahoo.com wrote: > >Homer J Simpson wrote: >> <jlhickle@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:1143571790.554761.56450@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... >> >> > 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. Are you sure about that? When I queried an Apple dealer why the floppy drive cost more than the hard drives he said that they weren't the same as normal floppy drives, they used variable rotation speed so that data density was the same over the whole disk. > >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. -- Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"! stanblaz@netspace.net.au www.cobracat.com (home of the Australian Cobra Catamaran) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cobra-cat/
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X-Google-Thread: 110568,73d4d9945acb45e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid110568,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!statler.nntpserver.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!news.netspace.net.au!not-for-mail From: Stan Blazejewski <stanblaz@netspace.net.au> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.coco Subject: Re: Re: Apple Floppy Drives Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:20:06 +1000 Organization: Home Lines: 32 Message-ID: <menk22p9p9d2acp09ko0fv2puqpoh2l0rl@4ax.com> References: <1143571790.554761.56450@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <7gnWf.15840$K11.13389@clgrps12> <1143606255.339643.48380@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: stanblaz@netspace.net.au NNTP-Posting-Host: 220-253-123-35.vic.netspace.net.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: otis.netspace.net.au 1143627606 29534 220.253.123.35 (29 Mar 2006 10:20:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@otis.netspace.net.au NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:20:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783