Re: floppy drive transit card?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

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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