7 Aug
2002
7 Aug
'02
8:55 a.m.
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
There were a few computers before the Tandy 600 with a
built-in disk
drive. The first that I can think of off-hand and which would have been
the earliest is the Gavilan. It featured a 3" disk drive.
Or did you mean 3.5" disk drive specifically?
Before the Tandy 600 came out, Gavilan had already switched from a 3"
drive to a 3.5" drive (Shugart SA300 (single sided)) Right about the time
that they closed, they were supporting double sided 3.5" (Shugart SA350),
with their OEM MS-DOS 2.11J? Installing other brands of double sided
drives was possible, but they had a custom faceplate that would only fit
the Shugarts - it could be removed from a Gavilan SA300 and installed on a
SA350.