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From: eric@cti.UUCP (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Alignment (really 3.5" drive availability)
Message-ID: <345@cti.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 03:30:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: cti.345
Posted: Fri Sep  5 03:30:31 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Sep-86 19:42:20 EDT
References: <157@sas.UUCP> <1958@ecsvax.UUCP> <310@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> <2249@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: eric@cti.UUCP (Eric Black)
Organization: Cornerstone Technology, Inc.
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In article <2249@osu-eddie.UUCP> mcclure@osu-eddie.UUCP (James Edward McClure) writes:
>In article <310@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>, ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Amiga-Man) writes:
>> OK ! Where did you get the drives for $100 !!
>> [...]
>> We wait with bitted breath....
                ^^^^^^  yeah, 8 per bite...
>	An article was posted here back in May about adding extra floppy
>disk drives to the Amiga.  The author was Eric Black and he said he had
>added drives df2: and df3:.  The drives he used were Toshiba FDD-4403AQK-02.
>They can be purchased from Halted Specialties in Sunnyvale. 
>
>	Jim McClure
>
>BTW the article number was 2780.  I can repost it if anyone would like.

That was the article number on your particular system; "your mileage
may vary"...  I don't honestly know what the Article-ID was.  I have
it (and all other net.micro.amiga articles) archived on tape, so I can
find out, but it's long expired by now.  It is, as usual, inappropriate
to repost the entire article, perhaps even more so for anyone other than
myself to do it, but if anyone wants a copy of it, please E-MAIL
a request to me at the UUCP address below, and if a large number of
requests float in I'll repost it, otherwise mail individual copies.

I mailed a reply to the AmigaMan a while ago (dunno if he got it).
Anyway, Halted Specialties (827 E. Evelyn Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086,
408-732-1573) seems to be out of that particular item (the Toshiba drive).
They are currently stocking an Epson drive, model SMD-100, which I have no
experience with, but they claim to be "Amiga compatible".  Price is $95.00.

Please note, all Amiga hackers out there, that the article I posted
about my floppy expansion had a few typos in it.  A nearly correct (one
typo so far) version is on one of the infamous "Fish Disks" (fish sticks?);
I don't know which one (it's >30, since I have all those and it's not among
them).  An IFF schematic diagram, hi-res interlaced, created with DPaint
by Thad Floryan (thad@well), is included.


-- 
Eric Black   "Garbage In, Gospel Out"
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