7 Jun
2006
7 Jun
'06
6:08 p.m.
ebay auction : 8821101727
A pair of Mitsubishi M2896-63-02U 8 inch floppies...
Bare drives no chassis or power supply.
They look like pretty bog standard half height 8 inch
drives to me.
Sold for $257 US.
7 Jun
7 Jun
7:02 p.m.
On 6/7/2006 at 6:08 PM Bill Sudbrink wrote:
They look like pretty bog standard half height 8 inch
drives to me.
Sold for $257 US.
8" floppy drives are getting expensive as they get to be less common. The
Mitsubishis were used a bunch of equipment, include Heath/Zentith. $257
for two half-height DS units is not a particularly awful deal.
Cheers,
Chuck
7:50 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 6/7/2006 at 6:08 PM Bill Sudbrink wrote:
OK then, this guy got a hell of a deal:
ebay auction : 8820786285
these guys got good deals:
ebay auction : 8817737206, 8814698597
and I'm sitting on a gold mine... I have about 30 SA-851s.
Full height admittedly, but I personally think that SA-851s
are the best 8" floppy ever made and grab them whenever I
get the chance (for a reasonable, to me anyway, price... less
than $30 including shipping per drive). I keep an eye for 8
inchers on ebay and don't recall ever seeing that high of a
price for bare drives before. I was going to bid those
because I have a system where it would be handy to stuff two
drives into a single full height spot and the seller was
local to me and would allow pickup for no fee.
They look like pretty bog standard half height 8
inch
drives to me.
Sold for $257 US.
8" floppy drives are getting expensive as they get to be less common. The
Mitsubishis were used a bunch of equipment, include Heath/Zentith. $257
for two half-height DS units is not a particularly awful deal.
9:26 p.m.
On 6/7/2006 at 7:50 PM Bill Sudbrink wrote:
OK then, this guy got a hell of a deal:
ebay auction : 8820786285
these guys got good deals:
ebay auction : 8817737206, 8814698597
Hey, I don't set prices--and the guy who bought the two drives runs a parts
business and so knows what things will sell for. Maybe he had a customer
lined up. It's really hard to say. But if he had to buy these things
through normal retail channels, he'd pay a lot more.
I've done the same thing--paid something like $70 for a NEC 3.5" diskette
drive for a customer who needed one as a replacement (this NEC was a very
weird drive, with status lines that one doesn't normally see on a commodity
3.5" drive--and it was a 1.3MB model to boot). I turned around and sold it
to the guy for $150 after I checked it out. He was happy to pay that.
OT: Did anyone see the 1620 core memory module on eBay? 8824427759 Looks
to be only a partial one--and the guy has his numbers wrong--the base model
1620 came with 20K digits of memory. (a digit being CF8421 6 bits decimal).
Cheers,
Chuck
8 Jun
8 Jun
12:31 a.m.
From: "Chuck Guzis"
I've done the same thing--paid something like $70 for a NEC 3.5" diskette
drive for a customer who needed one as a replacement
I have the same problem with 3.5" floppy drives used in Trace/Mountain
floppy autoloaders.
They use a drive called Sone 73W (IIRC). The peculiar thing with these
drives is that the eject button are exactly in the centre of the front. I
couldnt find them, so I had to modify the eject mechanism of the loaders one
after one. The drives were only good for 10-15.000 ejections.
Nico
12:28 p.m.
At 06:31 AM 6/8/06 +0200, you wrote:
From: "Chuck Guzis"
That sounds like it might be the same drive used in the HP 9122C disk
drives. I haven't looked at the drive itself out of a 9122C but I know HP
used Sony mechanisms in other floppy disk drives.
Joe
I
I've done the same thing--paid something like $70 for a NEC 3.5" diskette
drive for a customer who needed one as a replacement
I have the same problem with 3.5" floppy drives used in Trace/Mountain
floppy autoloaders.
They use a drive called Sone 73W (IIRC). The peculiar thing with these
drives is that the eject button are exactly in the centre of the front. couldnt find them, so I had to modify the eject
mechanism of the loaders one
after one. The drives were only good for 10-15.000 ejections.
Nico
9 p.m.
OK, for anybody who needs one badly, here's a
new-old-stock 8 inch full height floppy. I have
no connection to the seller. Watch the shipping
charge, it's a bit steep (in my opinion, anyway).
It went around once with no bids: 8821684724 and
has just been relisted: 8825490497.
9:45 p.m.
On 6/8/06, Bill Sudbrink <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net> wrote:
OK, for anybody who needs one badly, here's a
new-old-stock 8 inch full height floppy. I have
no connection to the seller. Watch the shipping
charge, it's a bit steep (in my opinion, anyway).
It went around once with no bids: 8821684724 and
has just been relisted: 8825490497.
I don't see a manual for the Mitsubishi M2894-36B drive on Bitsavers,
but it looks like Al recently picked up the manual for the Mitsubishi
M2894-63. Maybe the listing 8825490497 transposed 63 to 36?
7 Jun
7 Jun
9:32 p.m.
Well the lucky buyers did not know that kind of floppy they are buying. None
of those sales mention which dirve is installed in the cabinet.
The one who paid so much is a well know DEC and old equipment dealer.
probaly in reaction to an order. I have sold stuff to him and he doesn't
like to pay much for stuff to sit on the shelf but he is willing to pay for
what he wants. I also suspect the -63 is a particular model of the 851
Drive..
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