On 08/23/2018 04:12 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> I had a bunch of their DTC-300 HytypeI daisy wheel printers (KSR
> terminals) on a pedestal (little card cage in the top back of the
> pedestal was main obstacle to conversion to table-top; I can't remember
> whether it was a 4004 or an 8008
An interesting take on the removable media of the time, circa 188:
https://ia601603.us.archive.org/30/items/PC-Mag-1988-09-13/PC-Mag-1988-09-13.pdf
Starts on PDF page 213.
I don't think that DTC ever made a hard drive, but they did package
external drives under the TeamMate product line.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
DTC did a lot of strange things. I first knew them as manufacturing a
sheet feeder for the Diablo Hitype printer. I still have a few of their
disk controller cards and some SCSI controller engineering documents.
I had a bunch of their
On 08/23/2018 01:22 PM, jim stephens wrote:
>
> The Drivetec media was 6mb then 12mb. The 6mb media worked well if you
> repunched the floppies as AT high density media, and when DTC died a
> huge amount was sold with instructions on how to do that, as the cost of
> media was then still high for
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The thing that really brought Drivetec down was that you had to use
> their factory-preformatted embedded-servo floppy media. It was
> expensive (about $15 each in 1986).
>
Same with Iomega ZIP disks
On 08/23/2018 12:33 PM, Tom Gardner wrote:
> According to DTC's 1987 prospectus the Company began limited shipments of its
> TakeTen 10-megabyte removable-cartridge disk drive in December 1986. The
> TakeTen is based on technology developed by Data Technology in collaboration
> with Eastman
of drives in 1991
Tom
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From: Chuck Guzis [mailto:ccl...@sydex.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:48 AM
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Subject: DTC TakeTen media?
On the subject of oddball PC media, does anyone out there have media for
the DTC "Take Ten" cartridge drive?
On the subject of oddball PC media, does anyone out there have media for
the DTC "Take Ten" cartridge drive? I've got the drive here, still in
original shrink-wrap and packaging, but no media, so I don't have the
faintest idea if it still works.
As the 5.25" cartridges only held 10MB, I suspect
