17 Jul
2010
17 Jul
'10
4:43 p.m.
On 17 Jul 2010 at 16:16, Steven Hirsch wrote:
I pulled down a copy of their patent application for
the unit and it
almost looks like the Minipac diskettes have some sort of pre-written
servo track. Perhaps the unit can actually write this servo, but
without documentation I'm just surmising.
Could be. It sounds a bit like the Drivetec drives of the same time
period. Something like (ISTR) 192 tpi, using an embedded servo,
making factory-formatted disks mandatory, something that probably did
more to kill the drive than anything else. I've still got a couple
of the Kodak/Drivetecs with media from Dysan, but basically they
exist for the eventuality that someone, somewhere has data written on
one of these that they need to get at.
--Chuck