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Article #25827Re: 3.5" drive for old PC-1 ?
From: Dan Davison
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1988 03:38
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1988 03:38
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In article <16800244@clio>, berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes: > > That's correct: You'll have to buy another controller. If you're > Mike Berger No. If you want a 3.5" 720K drive, IBM (among others) sells one that runs off the existing floppy controller. I've got one. The only requirement is that you have DOS 3.2 for the DRIVER.SYS device driver. However, if you want a 1.4 Meg microfloppy drive, yup, a new controller is needed. -- dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 ms k710/los alamos national laboratory los alamos, nm 875545/dd@lanl.gov (arpa)/dd@lanl.uucp(new)/..cmcl2!lanl!dd "I think, therefore I am confused"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!cmcl2!beta!dd From: dd@beta.UUCP (Dan Davison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 3.5" drive for old PC-1 ? Message-ID: <16855@beta.UUCP> Date: 23 Mar 88 03:38:27 GMT References: <797@agora.UUCP> <16800244@clio> Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M. Lines: 16 Summary: yes you can, no new controller needed (720Kb)