Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!daver!bungi.com!news From: tbr@tfic.bc.ca (Tom Rushworth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: floppies for the pc532 Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 02:54:00 GMT Sender: news@daver.bungi.com Lines: 27 Approved: news@daver.bungi.com In article <9104081852.AA17488@lev.seri.gov> sverre@lev.Seri.GOV (Sverre Froyen) writes: >I am starting to realize that I need a floppy drive for the pc532 Me too. We should be able to do better than the $180 TEAC though. NCR makes something called the model 32 SCSI<->ST406 for around U$150, that usually goes in a box with a drive for attaching an external floppy to a Mac. Getting small quantities might be difficult, and the total cost would be > $180 anyway, but it shows that the Mac world might be a place to look. Dave Bowman has found a possible source of ~ U$100, 2.88M, 3.5" SCSI floppy drives, BUT: a) we don't know for sure that they work with the PC532, b) we don't know for sure that they can read/write 1.44M floppies (they are supposed to), c) we don't know how many we can get, and d) we don't know the final price. We should have answers to a) and b) by the end of April, I'll post more info as soon as I have it. (I'm waiting as fast as I can!) I realize the above is somewhat vague, but you did ask for comments :-) ---- Tom Rushworth (604) 733-0731 [FAX: 733-0634] | uunet!ubc-cs!van-bc!tacitus!tbr Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants | or: tbr@tfic.bc.ca