17 Jun
2009
17 Jun
'09
2:45 p.m.
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-VINTAGE-EXTERNAL-5-25-FLOPPY-DRIVES_W0QQitemZ20035377…
One looks like the single sided floppy drives that came with the 5150.
The other looks like it's from another planet. I originally though
it was a QIC tape drive, but the shot inside the drive opening shows
the slots along the side to hold the floppy disks.
17 Jun
17 Jun
2:49 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Brian Lanning wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-VINTAGE-EXTERNAL-5-25-FLOPPY-DRIVES_W0QQitemZ20035377…
One looks like the single sided floppy drives that came with the 5150.
The other looks like it's from another planet. I originally though
it was a QIC tape drive, but the shot inside the drive opening shows
the slots along the side to hold the floppy disks.
I sold one of these back in April. Here's the old auction page:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330321345663
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3:38 p.m.
David Griffith wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Brian Lanning wrote:
I've seen 8" drives like that; I'm not sure if there was any reasoning behind
it (possibly other than the original designer either being in a hurry or fresh
out of college), but it looks like they simply took the 8" variant and washed
it until it shrunk enough to take 5.25" media ;)
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-VINTAGE-EXTERNAL-5-25-FLOPPY-DRIVES_W0QQitemZ20035377…
One looks like the single sided floppy drives that came with the 5150.
The other looks like it's from another planet. I originally though
it was a QIC tape drive, but the shot inside the drive opening shows
the slots along the side to hold the floppy disks.
I sold one of these back in April. Here's the old auction page:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330321345663 
4:01 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
I've seen 8" drives like that; I'm not sure if there
was any reasoning behind it (possibly other than the
original designer either being in a hurry or fresh
out of college), but it looks like they simply took
the 8" variant and washed it until it shrunk enough
to take 5.25" media ;)
That's it exactly. It is the 8 inch mechanism reduced
to 5 1/4 inch. Only ever made by MPI as far as I can
tell. Ohio Scientific used MPI 5 1/4 inch drives with
that mechanism for most of their time in business.
David Griffith wrote:
item2ea603f2fe&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A10|66%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%>
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Brian Lanning wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-VINTAGE-EXTERNAL-5-25-FLOPPY-DRIVES_W0QQitemZ20035377…
One looks like the single sided floppy drives
that came with the 5150. The other looks like
it's from another planet. I originally though
it was a QIC tape drive, but the shot inside
the drive opening shows the slots along the side
to hold the floppy disks.
I sold one of these back in April. Here's the
old auction page:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330321345663 
4:33 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Brian Lanning wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-VINTAGE-EXTERNAL-5-25-FLOPPY-DRIVES_W0QQitemZ20035377…
is enough
One looks like the single sided floppy drives that
came with the 5150.
The other looks like it's from another planet. I originally though
it was a QIC tape drive, but the shot inside the drive opening shows
the slots along the side to hold the floppy disks.
It looks to me like an MPI B51 or B52
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4:48 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200353772286
is even better.
Peace... Sridhar
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