5 Jan
1998
5 Jan
'98
4:32 p.m.
Just pry a floppy drive out of an old IBM XT. They
plug right in and
work, assuming you have the same North Star controller I have in my
IMSAI. Herb Johnson ("Dr. S-100") explained this to me some time ago.
I tried it, and it works. As he told me, the sectoring is determined
So does this mean I could plug one of these drives into the Pertec Floppy
controller I've got, looking at the manual I think it's a FD2411 controller
dating to about 1977. I gather that it expects to find a Model FD200
Flexible Disk Drive. If not any other ideas on where I could get one of
these drives? Might be easier than getting the controller for the pair of
8" drives I've not been able to identify.
Zane
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