Re: Vintage Vista V-1200 5 disk changer for apple //e

["mr. brad" <mrbradremove@ll.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
>> This could be great for archiving a bunch of 5.25 floppies..
>>
>> perhaps just modifying a large CD changer, using some slim
>> 5.25 pc heads..  stick a ton of 5.25 disks in it, and tell the
>> apple to start making DSKs...  perhaps modify asimov or
>> another dsk maker program to change the disk after the
>> current one has been arkived.
>
> Cool!  But, IIRC, the disks had to be pre-loaded in a
> cassette, kind of like a car CD changer, so you couldn't
> just "run a stack".
>
> Of course, there were once a lot of 5.25" disk duplicating
> machines that could be modified to do bulk disk handling...
>
> -michael
>
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you guys are pulling my leg right? a modern vista drive?

i mean i got the beast..actually 2 of them...one for apple // and one for 
ibm pc..and i don't even use them..they look cool...but i mean ...who has 
the room to have them sit around and suck juice?

(crap another project...if i'm not gonna fire this stuff up ..i should at 
least make some shelves and pexiglass to show off the stuff...of course no 
one would care but me..the older i get the more i have in common with little 
old ladies who collect avon or ceramic cats....jeez)

brad
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