CompuPro floppy controller differences

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: CompuPro floppy controller differences
>   From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>   Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:00:18 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>> > >> keep all the FDC features you could put a 8" on a PC and read SSSD!
>On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Bryan Pope wrote:
>> 	You would need quite the desktop case to house an 8" floppy
>> drive! :)
>
>It says put an 8" ON a PC, not IN it.
>If you use two side by side drives horizontally,
>then it is a lot more stable to put the PC on the 8"

Of course starting with the half height 8" drives helps.  They are only
about 2.5" tall.

What is more interesting is what a PC with two 8" drives would 
weigh in at!   Most of the good 8" drives were a very solid hunk
of aluminum.

I have a heath H207 dual drive.  That's two half height doubled sided 
drives one atop the other and a linear power supply.  Weighs more 
than full up NS* Horizon (wood case)!  It's only 13.5x5.5x17 inches.


Allison