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From: davidc@pyr.gatech.EDU (David Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tandy(ack!) drive on Amy?
Summary: yes, but how about a Toshiba...
Keywords: external amiga drive
Message-ID: <5842@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 26 May 88 22:50:06 GMT
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Reply-To: davidc@pyr.UUCP (David Carter)
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In article <1003@mit-caf.UUCP> rajeev@caf.mit.edu (Rajeev Jayavant) writes:
>Does anybody out there know whether the 3.5" drives that Radio Shack
>sells for the Tandy 1000EX be used with Amy?  They're on sale for
>$99.95 this month - about the right price for an additional drive, eh?
>The ad claims 720K capacity, but is that a hardware limitation or just
>a result of the way the PC clones format the drive?  Thanks for any
>help.

I took a close look at that drive when it was on sale here a couple of months
ago.  It looks like it will work, but you would have to build a whole new cable
(theirs didn't have enough conductors, and of course didn't have a DB-23 plug).
I think the drive was the older style, 1.26" tall Teac.

If you're willing to make your own case and get a better drive, try Jade.  I
just got a sale flyer in the mail, and it has their Toshiba drive for only $98.
The drive itself is 1" tall and requires only 5vdc.  It includes the universal
mounting kit (with 5.25" mounting bracket, and 4 face plates- black/beige,
4"/6" wide) as well as a few connectors you can canibalize.  Oh yes, and you
get a 90 day warranty.

You're right- capacity depends on how they're formatted.  The drives are 1M
bytes unformatted, 720K on the PC, and 880K on the Amiga.
-- 
David Carter
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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