Yes. External 5.25" drives, both 360K and 1.2M were available for the
PS/2 line. It was just a matter of power and signal cabling to put
together your own.
There was a bracket with a DC-37. That could be used for PC external
drive, if that was what you had on hand. Or wanted to connect an 8"
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
The only ones I remember were third-party. SYSGEN comes immediately
to mind.
I had a few IBM ones. (from Foothill College fleamarket)
Beige, rounded corners, round cable
The 360K ones had an asterisk embossed on the faceplate.
Once IBM realized that 360K and 1.2M drives looked the same, they started
putting that asterisk on the 360K half-height face plates. That way, if
you had a drive with no asterisk, then you knew conclusively that it was
A) a 1.2M drive
B) a 360K drive from before the change
C) an aftermarket drive
We thought that putting a marking on the NEW type of drive would have made
more sense. Then, at least MOST of the drives could be correctly marked.
