Anyone got 1-2? I'm setting up a machine specifically to create floppies for my DEC hardware and others - doing this with a 1.2meg drive (which I have) is quite hard to get aligned properly. Happy to pay shipping or we can do VintageExpress. ebay is asking between $100 and $200 per drive, which seems... hefty. -d -- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
Are you trying to make RX50 disks? They are 80 track and 360k drives are 40 track. On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 08:17:02PM -0500, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Anyone got 1-2? I'm setting up a machine specifically to create floppies for my DEC hardware and others - doing this with a 1.2meg drive (which I have) is quite hard to get aligned properly.
Happy to pay shipping or we can do VintageExpress.
ebay is asking between $100 and $200 per drive, which seems... hefty.
-d
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
RX33's are not :) No, this is for multiple projects. I can make RX50's I believe on the 1.2 meg drive, but I also now have (counts) 4 RX50 drives? So I hope I can get things all running. On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 8:25 PM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Are you trying to make RX50 disks? They are 80 track and 360k drives are 40 track.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 08:17:02PM -0500, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Anyone got 1-2? I'm setting up a machine specifically to create floppies for my DEC hardware and others - doing this with a 1.2meg drive (which I have) is quite hard to get aligned properly.
Happy to pay shipping or we can do VintageExpress.
ebay is asking between $100 and $200 per drive, which seems... hefty.
-d
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
Actually, RX33s most certainly are. -Dave On 12/18/23 20:29, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
RX33's are not :)
No, this is for multiple projects. I can make RX50's I believe on the 1.2 meg drive, but I also now have (counts) 4 RX50 drives? So I hope I can get things all running.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 8:25 PM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Are you trying to make RX50 disks? They are 80 track and 360k drives are 40 track.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 08:17:02PM -0500, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Anyone got 1-2? I'm setting up a machine specifically to create floppies for my DEC hardware and others - doing this with a 1.2meg drive (which I have) is quite hard to get aligned properly.
Happy to pay shipping or we can do VintageExpress.
ebay is asking between $100 and $200 per drive, which seems... hefty.
-d
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Sorry, yes, DaveM, you're right. But regardless, the 360k stuff is for multiple other projects as well. RX50's are part of the equation, but not necessarily related to this directly. On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 8:30 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Actually, RX33s most certainly are.
-Dave
On 12/18/23 20:29, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
RX33's are not :)
No, this is for multiple projects. I can make RX50's I believe on the 1.2 meg drive, but I also now have (counts) 4 RX50 drives? So I hope I can get things all running.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 8:25 PM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Are you trying to make RX50 disks? They are 80 track and 360k drives are 40 track.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 08:17:02PM -0500, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Anyone got 1-2? I'm setting up a machine specifically to create floppies for my DEC hardware and others - doing this with a 1.2meg drive (which I have) is quite hard to get aligned properly.
Happy to pay shipping or we can do VintageExpress.
ebay is asking between $100 and $200 per drive, which seems... hefty.
-d
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
I've got a bunch of them, black faceplate, mostly Shugart and Panasonic IIRC. Do you want them tested/working/serviced or as-is? Thanks, Jonathan On Monday, December 18th, 2023 at 20:17, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Anyone got 1-2? I'm setting up a machine specifically to create floppies for my DEC hardware and others - doing this with a 1.2meg drive (which I have) is quite hard to get aligned properly.
Happy to pay shipping or we can do VintageExpress.
ebay is asking between $100 and $200 per drive, which seems... hefty.
-d
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com
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