[cctalk] Re: ATA-3 50-pin IDE

2023-03-29 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
How about this? http://www.cablesonline.com/slnocd50pinj.html m On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 4:33 PM Steve Lewis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Picture is on the VCF discussion here: > > 50-pin ATA to 44-pin ATA conversion options | Vintage Computer Federation > Forums (vcfed.org) > <

[cctalk] Looking for IBM 2723

2023-03-29 Thread Peter Ekstrom via cctalk
Hey all, So, being the new owner of a AS/400 9401-150, I am looking for a 2723-9406 LAN card for it. Does anyone have one they wouldn't mind parting with by chance? -Peter

[cctalk] Re: LS120, LS240, Floptical Drives and DD, HD, ED, and ?TD? drives

2023-03-29 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 3/29/23 08:36, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 3/29/23 02:18, Ali via cctalk wrote: > >>> Still have my Caleb UHD144 drives, though--144MB on a 3.5" preformatted >>> floppy. Drive also reads and writes 1.44M and 720K floppies. >> >> >From what I understand the Caleb was too little too late.

[cctalk] Re: LS120, LS240, Floptical Drives and DD, HD, ED, and ?TD? drives

2023-03-29 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
"2.8M" has an unformatted capacity of 4M The disk that you linked a picture of says "406TPI"! Therefore, it presumably has about three times as many tracks. (240?), which, if it does a 1,000,000 bits per second, with track density the same as "2.8M", That should read "density within each track",

[cctalk] Re: LS120, LS240, Floptical Drives and DD, HD, ED, and ?TD? drives

2023-03-29 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 3/29/23 02:18, Ali via cctalk wrote: >> Still have my Caleb UHD144 drives, though--144MB on a 3.5" preformatted >> floppy. Drive also reads and writes 1.44M and 720K floppies. > >>From what I understand the Caleb was too little too late. Zip had already >>established dominance and LS120 was

[cctalk] Re: Need a 1.2mb 5.25 floppy

2023-03-29 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Hi John! Thanks for the reply. I've been a bit busy but yes I would love to replace this drive and be able to read these 400k RX50 floppies. If you have a pair of the Teac type drives that will work in a PC-AT type system I'd be happy to pay for shipping and whatnot via Paypal. Given the num

[cctalk] Re: Need a 1.2mb 5.25 floppy

2023-03-29 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
We have a case or two of 1.2m diskette, we sell by the box or individually at Kennett Classic (kennettclassic.com) not sure how far you are from the MD/PA/DE border Bill On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 7:32 AM John Maxwell via cctalk wrote: > Hi Chris, >I had a bunch of 1.2Mb 5-1/4" drives that, unfor

[cctalk] Re: Need a 1.2mb 5.25 floppy

2023-03-29 Thread John Maxwell via cctalk
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 tak

[cctalk] Re: LS120, LS240, Floptical Drives and DD, HD, ED, and ?TD? drives

2023-03-29 Thread Ali via cctalk
> > Far more than you wanted to go through: > Fred, Not at all. As always lots of wisdom condensed into a short post. This one is going into my "Posts to Save" folder! > "2.8M" has an unformatted capacity of 4M > The disk that you linked a picture of says "406TPI"! > Therefore, it presumably h

[cctalk] Re: LS120, LS240, Floptical Drives and DD, HD, ED, and ?TD? drives

2023-03-29 Thread Ali via cctalk
Chuck, > Oh, you mean the Japanese TD disks. As far as I know only one machine > was produced that used them, the NEC PC 88-VA3: > > https://necretro.org/PC-88_VA3 Yep, that the one. > > It was an expensive market flop. You might try to hunt down a drive if > you're a collector, but as far