30 Oct
2002
30 Oct
'02
12:31 p.m.
I'm trying to help some guys outfit TI-99/4As with 360K
drives. A year or so ago, they were still available from
some of the surplus dealers I know about, but they seem
to have disappeared.
Does anyone have a line on supplies of 360K drives? The
only ones I find via web search are $25, which seems a
bit much for a once-ubiquitous drive that is now a little
obsolete.
30 Oct
30 Oct
12:53 p.m.
"DAVID L. ORMAND" wrote:
I'm trying to help some guys outfit TI-99/4As with 360K
drives. A year or so ago, they were still available from
some of the surplus dealers I know about, but they seem
to have disappeared.
Does anyone have a line on supplies of 360K drives? The
only ones I find via web search are $25, which seems a
bit much for a once-ubiquitous drive that is now a little
obsolete.
yeah, they've been lined up at the landfills of the world I think. I
was looking a year ago and just gave up. Even the 1.2 meg HD drives are
giveaway items. Planned obselecence.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph,MOz
1:32 p.m.
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"DAVID L. ORMAND" wrote:
I know I have at least 1 360K drive that isn't being used, possibly
2. I thought one more was going to become available, until I
discovered last night that Crysta's (IBM 5155) drive controller can't
seem to handle 1.2M drives.
If you are interested, perhaps we can wheel and deal a bit (I'm in
sell mode at this time instead of trading, as I'm still struggling to
refill the coffers.)
It will be real easy for me to test the drive right now, as I am
currently building a 286-based classic gaming system (what I call a
Jackrabbit Model II); so it would be a real simple matter for me to
disconnect the 1.2M drive and hook up the 360K to make sure it works.
If yer interested, send an email my way and we can work something
out.
-- Scarletdown
Does anyone have a line on supplies of 360K drives? The
only ones I find via web search are $25, which seems a
bit much for a once-ubiquitous drive that is now a little
obsolete.
yeah, they've been lined up at the landfills of the world I think. I
was looking a year ago and just gave up. Even the 1.2 meg HD drives
are giveaway items. Planned obselecence.
31 Oct
31 Oct
8:48 a.m.
Oddly enough,
I have a small, 2-drive chassis with a pair of 360K drives that had come
off of someone's TI-99/4A.
Where do they need to be? (currently in centeral MA)
Gary Hildebrand wrote:
"DAVID L. ORMAND" wrote:
>I'm trying to help some guys outfit TI-99/4As with 360K
>drives. A year or so ago, they were still available from
>some of the surplus dealers I know about, but they seem
>to have disappeared.
>
>Does anyone have a line on supplies of 360K drives? The
>only ones I find via web search are $25, which seems a
>bit much for a once-ubiquitous drive that is now a little
>obsolete.
>
1:43 a.m.
Check out the charity and thift stores in your area. You should be able to find plenty
of old PCs that contain 360K drives. You might also look for any scrap dealers or metal
recyclers in your area that tear down old PCs.
Joe
At 04:32 PM 10/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
I'm trying to help some guys outfit TI-99/4As with 360K
drives. A year or so ago, they were still available from
some of the surplus dealers I know about, but they seem
to have disappeared.
Does anyone have a line on supplies of 360K drives? The
only ones I find via web search are $25, which seems a
bit much for a once-ubiquitous drive that is now a little
obsolete.
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