20 Jan
2005
20 Jan
'05
9:23 a.m.
There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive that's popped up on
ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Ignoring the question of media, do these things have standard
connections for the interface?
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20 Jan
20 Jan
10:17 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Steve Jones wrote:
There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive
that's popped up on
ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Ignoring the question of media, do these things have standard
connections for the interface?
The Zenith MiniSport. We were discussing this a couple weeks back.
http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/zenith_minisport_laptop_computer.htm
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11:04 a.m.
Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Steve Jones wrote:
The MiniSport has a 2.0" floppy drive -- not 2.5. Altho the interface
itself is non-standard, the floppy *signals* are all one would need is a
bridgeboard to remap the pinouts - electrically it's a DSDD 80 cylinder
720K drive, from what I understand.
I know of a Tandy word processor (OEM'd by whom, I have no clue) that used
2.8" floppies - I think they held 120K or so, but don't quote me. I just
remember our local Radio Shack franchisee (who isn't a franchisee any
longer) that *still* had a 2-pack of 'em on the shelf as of 3 or 4 years ago.
If the drive is indeed 2.5", then it is not the drive in the MiniSport.
It's hard to tell from the auction if it really is the drive or not, as
it's been too long since I've looked at my bare drive to remember for sure.
-- One thing to ask the guy - *how's he know* it's in good working
condition? Did he test it and/or does he have a cable or computer that fits it?
HTH,
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There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive
that's popped up on
ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Ignoring the question of media, do these things have standard
connections for the interface?
The Zenith MiniSport. We were discussing this a couple weeks back. 
11:10 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Steve Jones wrote:
The MinisPort used a 2" floppy.
There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive
that's popped up on
ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Ignoring the question of media, do these things have standard
connections for the interface?
The Zenith MiniSport. We were discussing this a couple weeks back.
http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/zenith_minisport_laptop_computer.htm
12:14 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:17:40 -0800 (PST)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Steve Jones wrote:
I have a Zenith Minisport that I got at auction a few months ago. They
always sell the laptops first at the IUPUI auction and I guess I have a
reputation as a botton-feeder when it comes to old computer stuff. The
auctioneer held it out, the last laptop of the day, and tried to get a
few bids. Nothing at all. He said 'One Dollar' and handed it to me. I
am glad that I've gotten them trained at that particular auction
house...
Mine has no power supply, and the 2-1/2" disk is jammed in it, and won't
eject. I have another Minisport already with no diskette that also has
no power supply. Is it normal for the disk to just retract when you
push the button? That doesn't pop the disk out on my machine.
I have a number of other 8088 Zenith machines from that era as well,
that I've scarfed up for similar prices at earlier auctions. Some with
internal hard drives, and the external power supplies. And a PC
Convertable I got for a dollar with all 640K of RAM (which is rare with
PC Convertables).
I love those auctions, filled with clamoring fools who'll go home and
try to install Windows XP on the Pentium II they paid too much for,
while ignoring the good stuff.
-Scott
There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive
that's popped up on
ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Ignoring the question of media, do these things have standard
connections for the interface?
The Zenith MiniSport. We were discussing this a couple weeks back.
http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/zenith_minisport_laptop_computer.htm
21 Jan
21 Jan
4:37 a.m.
At 06:14 PM 1/20/05 -0500, Scott wrote:
I have a Zenith Minisport that I got at auction a few
months ago. They
always sell the laptops first at the IUPUI auction and I guess I have a
reputation as a botton-feeder when it comes to old computer stuff. The
auctioneer held it out, the last laptop of the day, and tried to get a
few bids. Nothing at all. He said 'One Dollar' and handed it to me. I
am glad that I've gotten them trained at that particular auction
house...
Mine has no power supply, and the 2-1/2" disk is jammed in it, and won't
eject. I have another Minisport already with no diskette that also has
no power supply. Is it normal for the disk to just retract when you
push the button?
The disk should pop out just like the disk in a regular 3.5" drive does.
I have an extra PSU that I can send you IF you have the connector for it. I
got two PSUs with mine but someone had cut one connector off of one of them
and put a five pin DIN connector on it. I can send you a 2" boot disk if
you like. NOTE: the disks are 2" NOT 2 1/2". Or maybe that's why your disk
won't eject! :-)
Joe
That doesn't pop the disk out on my machine.
I have a number of other 8088 Zenith machines from that era as well,
that I've scarfed up for similar prices at earlier auctions. Some with
internal hard drives, and the external power supplies. And a PC
Convertable I got for a dollar with all 640K of RAM (which is rare with
PC Convertables).
I love those auctions, filled with clamoring fools who'll go home and
try to install Windows XP on the Pentium II they paid too much for,
while ignoring the good stuff.
-Scott
4:32 a.m.
Nope, you're wrong. The MiniSport uses 2" disks. I have a couple of them
and was just playing with them a few days ago so I am sure.
Joe
At 01:17 PM 1/20/05 -0800, Sellam wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Steve Jones wrote:
Festival
There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive
that's popped up on
ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Ignoring the question of media, do these things have standard
connections for the interface?
The Zenith MiniSport. We were discussing this a couple weeks back.
http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/zenith_minisport_laptop_computer.htm
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9:31 p.m.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:45:14 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon(a)gjcp.net> wrote:
Steve Jones wrote:
I had a old akai sampler called an x7000 which used some real odd
floppys, unfortunatley the drive was dead, and I had no source of
floppy disks. I belive that these were 2.5" disks.
Benjamin
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There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive
that's popped up on
ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Didn't Akai S6<something> samplers (really old ones, with two sliders
for setting the loop points) have 2.5" floppies?
Gordon.
21 Jan
21 Jan
1:34 a.m.
New subject: 2.5' floppy -- from what gear?
I had a old akai sampler called an x7000 which used
some real odd
floppys, unfortunatley the drive was dead, and I had no source of
floppy disks. I belive that these were 2.5" disks.
Benjamin
Looks like it was a keyboard version of the S612. Looking at a PDF of the
manual, it seems you could load and save samples using a Commodore
cassette recorder if you didn't have the optional 2.8" disk drive!
Gordon.
4:28 a.m.
At 05:45 AM 1/21/05 +0000, you wrote:
Steve Jones wrote:
> There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive that's popped up on
> ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Some of the Amstrads shipped with either a 3" or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
joe
7:38 a.m.
Hi,
Joe R. said:
At 05:45 AM 1/21/05 +0000, you wrote:
3-inch, also used by the Tatung Einstein. I have a few of the disks here
with, I think, CP/M and ZCPR3 on.
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Steve Jones wrote:
> There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive that's popped up on
> ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Some of the Amstrads shipped with either a 3" or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
9:21 a.m.
Some of the Amstrads shipped with either a 3"
or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
Most Z80-based Amstrads (CPC664. CPC6128, PCW8256, Spectrum +3) along
with the Tatung Einstein and Oric used a 3" drive. I've seen this drive
sold as an add-on for things like the BBC micro
-tony
25 Jan
25 Jan
4:42 a.m.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
I saw an ad in an Apple ][ magazine that advertised one for the Apple ][.
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Some of the
Amstrads shipped with either a 3" or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
Most Z80-based Amstrads (CPC664. CPC6128, PCW8256, Spectrum +3) along
with the Tatung Einstein and Oric used a 3" drive. I've seen this drive
sold as an add-on for things like the BBC micro
7:11 a.m.
Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
I saw an ad in an Apple ][ magazine that advertised one for the Apple ][.
There were regular ads in Hot CoCo and Rainbow magazines for these as well
-- a little expensive, but they were advertised as 'flippy' disks straight
off, so the amount of storage was rather good for the time...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Some of
the Amstrads shipped with either a 3" or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
Most Z80-based Amstrads (CPC664. CPC6128, PCW8256, Spectrum +3) along
with the Tatung Einstein and Oric used a 3" drive. I've seen this drive
sold as an add-on for things like the BBC micro
12:27 p.m.
Most Z80-based Amstrads (CPC664. CPC6128, PCW8256,
Spectrum +3) along
with the Tatung Einstein and Oric used a 3" drive. I've seen this drive
sold as an add-on for things like the BBC micro
I saw an ad in an Apple ][ magazine that advertised one for the Apple ][.
26 Jan
26 Jan
3:35 p.m.
At 11:27 PM 1/25/05 +0000, Tony wrote:
Amusing-ish story. I needed a blank disk for the drive in my CoCo, and I
went to a local shop to buy one (or more). The salesdroidess said 'We
don't have any 3" disks. We've got 3.5", can you cut them down?'.
She
then offered me 3" disks at the 3.5" price (which was considerably
less)... Go figure...
Sales Droids! You gotta love em! :-)
Joe
24 Jan
24 Jan
12:09 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:28:52AM -0500, Joe R. wrote:
At 05:45 AM 1/21/05 +0000, you wrote:
3", and if anyone wants any disks I *think* I should still have some
lurking in a cupboard.
I believe that they were also used by some species of navigational
equipment popular with North Sea fishing boats.
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Steve Jones wrote:
> There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive that's popped up on
> ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Some of the
Amstrads shipped with either a 3" or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
25 Jan
25 Jan
11:17 a.m.
At 11:09 AM 1/24/05 +0000, you wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:28:52AM -0500, Joe R.
wrote:
I've found 3" drives in MilStd-1553 bus analyzers made by Loral.
Joe
At 05:45 AM 1/21/05 +0000, you wrote:
3", and if anyone wants any disks I *think* I should still have some
lurking in a cupboard.
I believe that they were also used by some species of navigational
equipment popular with North Sea fishing boats. Steve Jones wrote:
> There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive that's popped up on
> ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies?
Some of the
Amstrads shipped with either a 3" or 2 1/2" drive. Don't
remember which, it's been a long times since I've seen one.
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