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6 total messages Started by jlhickle Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:49

#50

Author: jlhickle
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:49

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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.

Re: Apple Floppy Drives

#93

Author: Homer J Simpson
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:35

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<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.

Re: Apple Floppy Drives

#94

Author: 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...
>
> > 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.

Re: Re: Apple Floppy Drives

#95

Author: Stan Blazejewski
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.
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Re: Apple Floppy Drives

#96

Author: Stephen
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:19

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On 28 Mar 2006 10:49:50 -0800, jlhickle@yahoo.com had a flock of green
cheek conures squawk out:

>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.

No, they didn't.  Also, the Macintosh and Apple II floppies are
different.


Stephen
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Re: Re: Apple Floppy Drives

#97

Author: Homer J Simpson
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:37

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"Stan Blazejewski" <stanblaz@netspace.net.au> wrote in message 
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> 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.

The Coco floppy drive, which was an el cheapo POS, was $799 originally. 
Tonka toys were better built! And Apple stuff was notoriously overpriced.

I do have a copy of Beneath Apple Dos somewhere - it will have a run down.

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