17 Jul
2010
17 Jul
'10
2:27 p.m.
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Has anyone else on the list seen one of these? I
picked up a Vista V1200
disk system for Apple 2 that uses this type of drive. The mechanism takes a
plastic cartridge with five 5.25" floppy disks. The diskettes appear to be
conventional SS format with a couple of extra punchouts to mate with the
loader mechanism. Electrical interface is compatible with 8" floppy drives
(interface card was also sold for that purpose).
I think I encountered one in a client's junk closet. By the way, does
anyone know the identity or have pictures of the device referenced in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Floppy_mass_storage as being
"spectacularly messy" when it failed?
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David Griffith
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