3 Mar
2014
3 Mar
'14
9:33 a.m.
Thats good to know...thanks, Chuck. I dont know where I read that but, I'll
gladly stand corrected. According to a wikipedia page on the Xerox 820,
Xerox did offer single and dual sided 8" drives as well as 5.25 single and
dual. This thing is a heavy SOB for its size. Its just under 40lbs.
-Kurt
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 03/02/2014 02:18 PM, Kurt M. Nowak wrote:
I have for auction on Ebay, a dual 8" floppy drive for a Xerox Model 820
desktop. The auction number is 111291934342. I
don't have means of
testing this machine but it turns on and the drive motors spin. From
what I understand, this drive will only work with the 820? I do not have
the rest of the machine, sorry... Local pickups can also be arranged.
Not true--it's basically a pair of Shugart SA-801 single-sided drives with
power supply in a box with a DC-37 male plug. The conductors are easy to
rearrange to fit many PC external drive connectors of the same flavor.
The downside is, of course, that they're single-sided. But that may not
matter to many people.
--Chuck