Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!gerry
From: gerry@syntron.UUCP (G. Roderick Singleton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: 8" floppy drive probles
Summary: Hi-den 5-1/4" drives equivalent
Message-ID: <286@syntron.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 17:14:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: syntron.286
Posted: Thu Mar 24 12:14:49 1988
References: <802@nuchat.UUCP> <18700014@clio> <1576@sigma.UUCP>
Organization: Syntronics Manufacturing Inc., ON, Canada
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Any of you that are searching for 8" floppies can substitute any
5-1/4" floppy dirve that is shurgart 475 equivalent.  Build an adapter
cable and pull the hi-den line TRUE.  Now you have an 8" drive in
5-1/4 clothes.  Getting 1.2 Mbytes out of one of these small beaties is
very nice and with the addition of some control you can even handle
780 Kbyte diskettes and read 48 tpi ssdd and dsdd diskettes.  There are
also supposed to be some 3-1/2" drives that will give the same
performance on the same interface.  

Think of it more choices!


-- 
G. Roderick Singleton, Technical Services Manager
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