Re: floppy drive transit card?

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@insightbb.com>]

To answer the Rockin' Kat's question:  The old black face full height //e
disk// drives used to come that way...as did some of the //c external drives
and at least a few of the 5.25 drives for the early //gs machines.  External
3.5 drives used to come with a yellow plastic insert in them.
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On 7/14/07 4:11 PM, in article 9O-dnX2dC5CsswTbnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@comcast.com,
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> Rockin' Kat wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Did any of Apple's 5.25" floppy drives need transit cards to be inserted
>> in them when they were being shipped like commodore drives did? I'm
>> trying to tell someone how to pack and ship old computer stuff and I
>> want to know if I should tell them to cut some out of cereal boxes to
>> put in Apple II drives.
> 
> Single-sided drives have a felt pressure pad resting on the head when
> no disk is installed, so I don't expect any problems.
> 
> An insert (like an old floppy, for example) would prevent the sprung
> pressure pad from banging against the head if the drive were subjected
> to heavy vibration, so it can't hurt.
> 
> -michael
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