I've got a fellow with a stock of Teac FD235J (2.88) drives and about a
dozen bare Teac FC-1 SCSI boards.
I'm trying to gauge interest--I don't think he wants to sell them
onesy-twosy, but I'm willing to act as intermediary for single-unit
purchases if there is sufficient interest.
--Chuck
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> I've got a fellow with a stock of Teac FD235J (2.88) drives and about a
> dozen bare Teac FC-1 SCSI boards.
I'm interested, if the drives can be used for imaging 2.88 media (a la
IBM, etc). Probably not so much the SCSI boards - th
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
I've got a fellow with a stock of Teac FD235J (2.88) drives and about a
dozen bare Teac FC-1 SCSI boards.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
I'm interested, if the drives can be used for imaging 2.88 media (a la
IBM, et
On 01/23/2018 08:14 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Be aware that you will also need a different controller, or some minor
> modifications.
>
> PC controllers normally support 250,000 bits per second ("360K", "720K"),
> and 500,000 bits per second ("1.2M, "1.4M")
> SOMETIMES 125,000 bits per s
2.8M runs at 1,000,000 bits per second.
Such controllers exist, but are not very common.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Fred. They've been fairly common since the 496 days (I've got several
machines with the controllers on them, including a 486 VLB system).
They almost st
On 01/23/2018 08:45 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> They almost started to catch on, particularly in some PS/2.
> I had one with a MicroSolutions "Backpack" parallel port interface.
It would be a simple matter to upgrade a 1.44M backpack floppy with a
2.88M capable drive, as the controller is
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
The Compaticard IV and a few other ISA cards support ED mode also.
But again, why? I still have a box of the Imation ED floppies (barium
ferrite). The price was ridiculous for floppies of the time.
Until CD-rOM became the standard for softwar
On 01/23/2018 09:27 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Being part of the problem, . . . I was very happy in 1991, to finally
> find Windoze 3.0 and 3.1 on CD-ROM, to stop juggling several dozen
> installation floppies.
The last-gasp installation floppies--Microsoft 21-sector DMF
distribution (or
I wouldn't mind a couple of FC-1 but I bet the price would be much more
than I can afford.
bill
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
I wouldn't mind a couple of FC-1 but I bet the price would be much more
than I can afford.
Speaking of the FC-1 boards: it appears that they support different sector
sizes, as well as MFM and FM encoding. How do you program this?
Christian
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> 2.8M runs at 1,000,000 bits per second.
> Such controllers exist, but are not very common.
> Can Catweasel/kryoflux handle that data transfer rate?
Looks like no on the KF: https://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?t=198
The post i
2.8M runs at 1,000,000 bits per second.
Such controllers exist, but are not very common.
Can Catweasel/kryoflux handle that data transfer rate?
On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
Looks like no on the KF: https://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?t=198
The post is from 2011, but as i
On 01/24/2018 09:45 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> BTW, it is 2.8M. It is NEVER 2.88M unless you REDEFINE "Megabyte" to be
> 1,024,000 bytes. What moron does THAT? (not the 1,000,000 used by
> marketing, nor the 1,048,576 used in computers (AKA MebiByte))
Well, 2.95MB or 2.81MiB.
That's w
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Does ImageDisk or Teledisk support it?
> If so, then with the ED controller and one of these drives from Chuck, you
> could image things such as the "4 Meg" floppies from NeXT. (4M is the
> UNFORMATTED capacity of the 2.8M disk, and
On 01/24/2018 02:35 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> Does ImageDisk or Teledisk support it?
>> If so, then with the ED controller and one of these drives from Chuck, you
>> could image things such as the "4 Meg" floppies from
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