4 Oct
2004
4 Oct
'04
11:46 p.m.
At 06:18 05/10/2004, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
I have two here (in Salford, UK), and an IBM XT, I rescued from eBay (for
?5.00) which I would like to pass on to anybody who can use them. (I did
have some interest before, but have not heard back from the person
concerned. I suspect shipping was going to be too much.)
Wasn't there a device at one time that had 5
1.44mb floppies raided to
form a 5m drive?
The Amlyn drive had a cartridge holding 5 1.2M 5.25" floppies,
that could be accessed one at a time, or as if it were a 6M disk
(physically only one disk was loaded at a time). But although it
could span disks, it did not use any reasonable "RAID" method. The diskettes had a couple of extra notches cut into
them,
but were otherwise normal 600 Oersted diskettes.