On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joachim Thiemann
<joachim.thiemann at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 16:59, Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
_not_ part of it (I do have spare non-mainstream
drives like Teac
FD55GFRs and Amiga "720K" drives and oddball Sony drives for the Tandy
1000, etc, but not a pile of FD235HDs, for example).
I probably don't need to say this, but please do not abuse the Amiga
floppy drives too much - they are still a sought after commodity in
the Amiga community.
You don't need to say it to me. I have no intentions of turning
Commodore drives into musical instruments. I still have Amigas to
keep running. My point was only that the drives I do have lying
around are exactly *not* generic PC drives.
Not all PC floppy dives can easily be modified to
work in Amigas, and there is of course the positioning of the eject
button that is important for those that want to keep their A500
looking right.
Yep.
Plus they fit into 1581's without modification.
I do have a couple of 1581s, including one that seems to have a dead
drive (I got them a long time ago from a Commodore dealer who was
going out of business, so it was probably a customer repair/return
unit).
-ethan