30 Aug
2006
30 Aug
'06
3:25 p.m.
On 8/30/2006 at 10:35 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Early 3.5" disks had a manual shutter, you had to
slide it open before
inserting the disk in the drive, and squeeze the corner of the disk to
close it after ejecting the disk. Drives designed for those disks only
couldn't take the now-standard disks with automatic shutters because they
lacked the lever to open the shutter.
Was this universal? My Sony 2/3 height drive (40 cylinder, single side)
will accept the shuttered disks just fine and it's about as early a 3.5"
drive as one can find.
Cheers,
Chuck