15 Oct
2000
15 Oct
'00
4:44 a.m.
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Claude.W wrote:
>>These are the 1st floppy disks for the COCO
made by RS. The units are
>>TEC FB-201.
At least around here, the very FIRST drives that RS made available for the
Coco were Shugart SA400s. That is a 35 track drive with the spiral groove
disk. Allison pointed out that there was a later model (SA400L) that
could handle 40 track. BTW, if you have decent machine shop capabilities,
the SA400 could easily be modified for more tracks, but it is NOT a
handheld Dremel task.
Later drives around here included Tandon (TM100-1)? and TEC. Tandon uses
a split band positioner. Didn't the production TEC's also use a split
band???
Was the "TEC" label on the drive itself, or on the case (possibly a drive
had been changed?)
Does your drive have what looks like a slide switch on the front
panel? (present on TECs). What kind of door mechanism?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com