30 Apr
2010
30 Apr
'10
12:17 a.m.
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:03:07 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Well. In the meantime I
got two 8" drives and media too, but never used
them. I even wrote a driver for the RX02 8" floppy for NetBSD/VAX.
Though, I wrote that driver with a 5.25" drive connected to a third
party controler that emulates a RX02. I don't own a real RX02.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
I think I bought my last floppy drive about 15 years
ago. It was a
name-brand (Teac) and I bought the service manual too. Never had any
problems with it...
So surprise. In 1995 floppy drives still had a quite good
quality.
But they went down the hill in the late 90'is.
8"
flppies where already gone and replaced by 5.25", when I got my
fingers on a computer for the first time.
My first floppy drive was a 5.25"
one ()on a TRS-80 Model 1). This has
not stopped me from obtaing 8" drives since then :-)