15 Jul
2009
15 Jul
'09
9:52 p.m.
On Wednesday (07/15/2009 at 11:36PM -0400), M H Stein wrote:
Your memory's pretty good; they are indeed SS/DD 100TPI; there's
also a 1016-2 which looks like pretty well the same drive.
Vector Graphic used these drives with a Micropolis controller; I have
two VG systems that use them (with hard sector disks, FWIW).
The bare mechs were also used in Commodore 8050 dual disk drives
(as well as Tandon and MPI) but with custom electronics.
You can find a maintenance manual (26MB) at:
www.vector-archive.org
in the VG Docs CD folder.
The Micropolis controller manual is in the Manuals folder.
Good luck!
Very cool! Thank you. I've grabbed some very useful stuff. Much
appreciated.
I've had some success building a 10-hole hard sector emulator using 3.5"
drives and so the 16-hole Micropolis stuff is the next mission to emulate
on 3.5"-- but in the meantime, I'll use the 1015-2 assuming they are
still workable and then also have a line on some Tandon 100-4M which
are also 100 tpi drives.
Thanks again!
Chris
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Chris Elmquist