17 Jul
2008
17 Jul
'08
8:46 a.m.
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:25:51 -0500
From: "joe lobocki" <jlobocki at gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Walther
<trag at io.com> wrote:
<http://www.shrevesystems.com/drives.html>
well, i just looked, and they have 1.44m drives only, so that wont work.
but, I have bought from shreve before in the past (although, over ebay)
and
found them to be reliable, but that was a while ago. thanks for the help
though
17 Jul
17 Jul
10:34 a.m.
jeff, you may be right, but my understanding was that a 1.44 drive
wont function in a system with an 800k set of chips, and that it needs
to be chipped or the logic board swapped. yes, I am a purist, but i
think i might be able to slide on this one if it works.
On 7/17/08, Jeff Walther <trag at io.com> wrote:
My bad. I was thinking of "autoinject" and not 800K vs. 1.44MB.
However, unless you're a purist for collector's reasons, I think the 1.44
MB drive will work fine in the SE. It will read and write 800K and 400K
disks just as well as an 800K disk drive.
The only issue I can remember is that you might need a different floppy
drive cable (red stripe vs. yellow stripe) or was that an auto-inject vs
manual-inject cable issue? It's been so long since I've dealt with
floppy replacement that that old knowledge isn't terribly accessible any
more.
But I do know that the 1.44 MB auto-inject drive is a good functional
replacement for the 800KB auto-inject drive and the only reason not to do
it is if you're trying to keep the machine pristinely original.
Jeff Walther
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:25:51 -0500
From: "joe lobocki" <jlobocki at gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Walther
<trag at io.com> wrote:
<http://www.shrevesystems.com/drives.html>
well, i just looked, and they have 1.44m drives only, so that wont work.
but, I have bought from shreve before in the past (although, over ebay)
and
found them to be reliable, but that was a while ago. thanks for the help
though
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