Perfect timing!!
In a few weeks, California will be flooded with 5.25-inch floppy drives,
which are still used today by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation
Agency.
See article:
Do note that Fred last line can be important.
If you take a disk that is a 96 tpi and write something on a clean disk, you should be
able to take it to a 360k drive and read it. If the disk was use ona 360k machine and you
over write anything that was previously on it, it will unlikely read on a 360K drive. This
is because the 96 tpi drive does not erase the wider track written by the earlier 360k
drive 🙁
It is like a oneway ticket. It only gets you there but not back.
Dwight
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From: Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2024 1:50 PM
To: Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Running DOS executables on other versions of DOSRe: Looking for
Sharp PC-5000 disk drive (CE-510F or possibly MZ-80B)
Converting drive:
SOME 96tpi drives had a
jumper to make them always double step
SOME 2 speed drives had a jumper to force one speed.
SO, it couldbe jumpered into a 360K, other than the heads being too narrow