more housecleaning -- floppy disk manuals

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 09:30:51 pm Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2009 at 18:48, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I think there must have been. Didn;t the Commodore 8050 use 100tpi
> > drives? In which case the 8250LP ('Low Profile') and I guess the PET
> > 8296D (Intenral drives, basically an 8296 and 8250LP built into one
> > case) must have used half-height 100tpi drives.
>
> Stock electronics or "Commodore" style drive electronics?  I don't
> know much about these specific units.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck

To the best of my recollection (I only ever encountered one of those 8050s) 
the electronics were very c= - specific.



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