Paul Schlyter wrote:
In article <d01fc4cb-15e7-440f-9c11-8965e6a7461f@v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, Paul G. <carbide@egine.com> wrote:Yeah, these pc 3.5" drives are quite a contrast with other types. I recently tested a total of 7 Apple III floppy drives and all passed. Pretty amazing considering they have had very little use for the past 20 yrs. -PaulI suppose those Apple /// drives did cost an arm and a leg though, compared to these 3.5" PC drives. As usual, you get what you pay for...
The mechanisms were identical to the Disk ][ and the analog board had only trivial wiring differences. When I first looked inside and saw that they were "gutted" Shugart SA390's, I was a little dubious--especially looking at the plastic head positioning cam--but they turned out to be quite durable. As we all know: "What isn't there will never fail." ;-) -michael NadaPong: Network game demo for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."