3 Jun
2006
3 Jun
'06
10:16 p.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: MO support
I like my Ricoh (5013?). But, damn impossible to find documentation
for it! :-( Needless to say, I never dick with the DIP switches
(without writing down their original settings) for fear of "breaking"
something...
The Pinnacle Micro MO stuff offered two types of
media; 512 byte and 1024
byte sectors. I've got an Apex 4.3GB 512-byte sector cart around here
someplace. The drives would die if you looked at them cross-eyed--and I
think the miserable field record of the Apex drives contributed to the
eventual bankruptcy of Pinnacle.
Youi can still find the drives on ePay. In my experience, if you find one
that looks like a good deal, the seller will not warrant that it works.
Cheers,
Chuck
So who made good MO drives back in the 1990's?
I have a Fujitsu 230MB 3.5" drive, a FWB Hammer 1300 that just came in today (Maxoptix T3-1304 drive), and a Olympus MOS525. The
last 2 drives are 5.25"
1.3GB and all are rewritable. Last year I lucked into the Olympus and
Fujitsu for free along with a huge box of media (quite a bit still in
Yeah, I picked up 200 shrink-wrapped 650M carts for a whopping $7
(total). I've been using them to give me backup copies (of backup
copies) of things that I *really* don't want to lose! :-/
shrink-wrap). I snagged the FWB box because I like
having atleast 2
compatible drives around if I decide to archive material I will want to read
down the road. Atleast with my DDS4 tape drive I am sure I can find a
replacement cheap in 5 years, the old MO are still hard to come by cheaply.