1/2 height 5.25" floppy drives (was: BASF)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:25:07PM -0400, Joachim Thiemann wrote:
> > On Friday 26 September 2008 12:37, David Griffith wrote:
> >> I remember 5.25"/3.5" combo drives that were like that for the 5.25" side.
> >> They were made by Teac, I think.
> 
> Teac FD-505.  Yeah, got one of those, too.

Me, too.  It's mounted in a 486/DX-66 in a mini-tower that just doesn't have
a lot of places to mount disk drives.  I think it's full with a FD-505,
a CD-ROM, and a single disk.

At a certain point in time, it was a very handy item, then 5.25" floppies
fell out of daily use right after...

-ethan

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