1 Jan
2007
1 Jan
'07
9:46 a.m.
At 11:32 PM 12/30/2006 -0800, you wrote:
On 31 Dec 2006 at 0:38, Tom Peters wrote:
I guess you could, if you were willing to trick up your own front panel, or
make it all fit into 5.25" vertical openings. The drives are standard 5?"
with proprietary rails, so two thumbscrews allow removal of the drive.
The rails are simple wide U-stock, maybe 1.25" wide, with the flat wide
edge bolted to the drive. The legs of the U are less than a quarter inch
and ride on slots milled in the cabinet. Simple and elegant.
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But they were amusing. Well, sort of amusing.
If I had a nice cabinet like that, I'd fill it with one each of
various types of floppy drives (except for 8") and a switch.
Let's see -- one 1.44, one 720K, 1 1.3MB for 3.5", one 100 tpi 5.25",
1 360K, 1 1.2MB. Given that the 100 tpi is a full height unit,
that's 7 half-height drives. Would take a bit of hacking, but it
should work.
Right now, except for the FH drives, I use IBM PS/2 Diskette
Adapter/A cabinets, one for each drive.