Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but
...). I'm after one in the standard 3.5 floppy drive size, not laptop.
The one in my main system just died :-(. I have a lot of stuff on LS-120
disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network the
Floppy drives typically suffer from a couple of common problems, the first is
broken wires in the head. The second is hardened grease in the moving
parts of the head carriage, and the third is dead electrolytic capacitors.
-Chuck Harris
David C. Partridge wrote:
Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk
: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
To: teksco...@yahoogroups.com, hp_agilent_equipm...@yahoogroups.com,
'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' time-nuts@febo.com
Date: Friday, 4 December, 2009, 13:42
Internal 3.5 LS-120 Superdisk floppy
drive (ideally with black front
. Partridgedavid.partri...@dsl.pipex.com
Subject: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
To: teksco...@yahoogroups.com, hp_agilent_equipm...@yahoogroups.com,
'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
time-nuts@febo.com
Date: Friday, 4 December, 2009, 13:42
David,
You probably know this already, but you can walk into any electronics store
and buy a 16GB USB thumb drive for 20 dollars that will hold the equivalent
of 136 LS-120 floppies. You might be better served by moving your
collection to a more modern media.
Remember that magnetic media
: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On
Behalf Of Justin Pinnix
Sent: 04 December 2009 18:35
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive
David,
You probably know this already, but you can walk
Hi Justin:
I was just reading about Digital Cinema in relation to learning more
about Home Threater,
http://www.prc68.com/I/HomeTheater.shtml
There are now thousands of movie theaters (most are the small multi
screen type) that use digital projection instead of 35 mm film. There
are many
David C. Partridge wrote:
Yep - that's OK for the future, reminds me that one day I must
build/buy/scrounge a middle aged Pentium and fit it with 5 1/4, 3.5, 3
floppy, MO and other kit to read OLD stuff. Plus adapters for laptop IDE
drives before they vanish.
Right now tho' ...
D.
