Hi Chris,
I had a bunch of 1.2Mb 5-1/4" drives that, unfortunately, may have been
discarded over the past year. I mainly hung on to all of the 360K FDDs that I
came across, which are more difficult to find. I know that I still have some
NOS 1.2Mb units (never been powered up, but also not taken out of their
original plastic bags either.) I bought these new from a local computer store
(still in business, but now doing mostly consulting work, unfortunately) many
years ago (early 2000's) to support some clients that used them. I have (or
had) used, tested 1.2Mb drives also.
Alas, I am near Buffalo, NY and not too close to MD, but am willing to pack
and ship. I see from the replies that I have read that nobody has offered
drives. If you are still interested, I can look up the models of the units that
I still have and from which I can part.
Best,
-John
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, 26 February, 2023 19:42
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Cc: Chris Zach <c...@beaker.crystel.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Need a 1.2mb 5.25 floppy
Oi.
So after finally getting things going I started copying the Pro/380 OS files to
a bunch of 1.2mb floppies. Great. However after a bit I started getting errors,
and found that the disks were getting gouges in the tracks. Sure enough
disassembly of my 1.2mb Teac showed that debris had become embedded in the disk
head and cleaning is not possible.
Terrific. Tossing the drive, this is not the first time I have had this problem
with these disks so I am dumpstering all of the old floppies and just bought 40
new ones in sealed boxes.
However I'm now in need of a 1.2mb floppy drive. Anyone have a good working
spare that I can beg/borrow/buy in the MD area?
Thanks!
CZ
(I really should have pitched these disks; they came from a basement with an
oil heater for 20 years and are quite honestly garbage. Only thing worse were
disks from Solarex which literally had silicon dust on them that chewed any
drive. Oh well, live and learn)
