New subject: Serial floppy drives

3 Sep 2002

   Drive-95 is (was?) made by Sparcom and was originally made for the HP-95 then for the
HP-200 and later for the HP-48. I won one at a HP conference a couple of years ago and
Megan (the owner of Sparcom) promised me that I could send it back to the company and have
it upgraded to later version. I've been meaning to do that.  AFIK Drive-95 is still
being made and sold.

   Joe

At 10:05 AM 9/3/02 +1000, you wrote:
...
 One existed for the HP-48 series of calcs.  It was
called (I think)
drive-95.

The device used serial, and kermit to communicate with the calc for program
storage.

(I *reallllly* wanted one of those...)

Doug Jackson
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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:40 AM
 To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
 Subject: Re: Serial floppy drives

 On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, tim lindner wrote:
  Did anybody ever market a floppy disk system that
communicated via
 RS-232?  
 Yes, but, ...
 Only one really "caught on" 
 Radio Shack "Portable Disk Drive" was sold for the Model 100.
 It was serial, but not quite RS-232.  The first version was 
 Single-Density? on a 3.5" disk.

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