Kittyhawk drives (was Re: Looking for: Dauphin DTR-1 Floppy) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Feb 2010

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
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  On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:

 As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP Kittyhawk
 drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). ?Quite a marvel of engineering in 1993... 
 ?I have several of the 20MB Kittyhawks and a single 40MB unit. 
I have a couple of 20MB Kittyhawks.  The place was out of stock on
40MB units when I found them.

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 ?I've done a
 bit of hacking on them with home-brew SBCs. ?They are a little weird in some
 ways, but they're really neat, I like them. 
Yep.  I hooked mine to an IDE-64.  Quite portable.

-ethan