Perfect timing!!
In a few weeks, California will be flooded with 5.25-inch floppy drives,
which are still used today by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation
Agency.
See article:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/san-francisco-will-spend-usd212-million-to-bid-5-25-inch-floppy-disks-goodbye-muni-metro-light-rail-upgrade-represents-a-usd700-million-investment
Thomas
On 29.10.2024 00:18, dwight via cctalk wrote:
Do note that Fred last line can be important.
If you take a disk that is a 96 tpi and write something on a clean disk, you
should be able to take it to a 360k drive and read it. If the disk was use ona
360k machine and you over write anything that was previously on it, it will
unlikely read on a 360K drive. This is because the 96 tpi drive does not erase
the wider track written by the earlier 360k drive 🙁
It is like a oneway ticket. It only gets you there but not back.
Dwight
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From: Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2024 1:50 PM
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Cc: Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Running DOS executables on other versions of DOSRe:
Looking for Sharp PC-5000 disk drive (CE-510F or possibly MZ-80B)
Converting drive:
SOME 96tpi drives had a jumper to make them always double step
SOME 2 speed drives had a jumper to force one speed.
SO, it couldbe jumpered into a 360K, other than the heads being too narrow
