9 Nov
2008
9 Nov
'08
1:32 a.m.
What is the availability of 2.8 inch "Quickdisk" drives and disks?
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Will
9 Nov
9 Nov
2:12 a.m.
On 9 Nov 2008 at 2:32, William Donzelli wrote:
What is the availability of 2.8 inch
"Quickdisk" drives and disks?
There's a seller who's selling the 2.8" Smith-Corona-labeled DataDisk
for about $10 the each new. Drives? Probably cheapest to find a
Smith-Corona PWP with one and scavenge it from there. Bare drives
seem to command an obscene premium as they're used in some old Roland
synths.
Cheers,
Chuck
10 Nov
10 Nov
4:16 p.m.
There's a seller who's selling the 2.8"
Smith-Corona-labeled DataDisk
for about $10 the each new. Drives? Probably cheapest to find a
Smith-Corona PWP with one and scavenge it from there. Bare drives
seem to command an obscene premium as they're used in some old Roland
synths.
Do you know which ones used QuickDisks? The ones I have or have seen
use 3.5 inch disks.
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Will
5 p.m.
On 10 Nov 2008 at 16:16, William Donzelli wrote:
(Fibber Magee goes to his closet)
I've got a PWP-5G portable here that uses them, and my notes say that
the PWP-1000, 2000, 90 and 3 used them also. Other than the 5G in my
hot little hands, the list is by no means complete nor authoritative.
A single track recorded as a spiral; the drive positioner works off
of a grooved disc-with-follower driven from the spindle motor through
a clutch. Auto-completes and returns to the beginning of the track
as part of the cycle. Very, very simple. If you wanted to emulate
it in software, it'd be very easy as the datarate isn't particularly
high.
Cheers,
Chuck
There's a
seller who's selling the 2.8" Smith-Corona-labeled DataDisk
for about $10 the each new. Drives? Probably cheapest to find a
Smith-Corona PWP with one and scavenge it from there. Bare drives
seem to command an obscene premium as they're used in some old Roland
synths.
Do you know which ones used QuickDisks? The ones I have or have seen
use 3.5 inch disks.
5:40 p.m.
Do you know
which ones used QuickDisks? The ones I have or have seen
use 3.5 inch disks.
(Fibber Magee goes to his closet)
I've got a PWP-5G portable here that uses them, and my notes say that
the PWP-1000, 2000, 90 and 3 used them also. Other than the 5G in my
hot little hands, the list is by no means complete nor authoritative.
6:11 p.m.
On 10 Nov 2008 at 17:40, William Donzelli wrote:
I was actually wondering about which synths.
Probably a better question asked over at a vintage synth list, but
here goes:
Roland PR-100, S-10, MT-100, S-220
Akai S700, X7000, MD280 (external drive)
I think Yamaha had an external QD drive for some of its synths also.
Again, not exhuastive, just the more common ones.
Cheers,
Chuck
11 Nov
11 Nov
2:56 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10 Nov 2008 at 17:40, William Donzelli wrote:
Korg SQD-1, SQD-8...
Not sure if any of the Korg samplers used them. I know the DSS-1 used
normal 3.5" disks.
Gordon
I was actually wondering about which synths.
Probably a better question asked over at a vintage synth list, but
here goes:
Roland PR-100, S-10, MT-100, S-220
Akai S700, X7000, MD280 (external drive)
I think Yamaha had an external QD drive for some of its synths also.
Again, not exhuastive, just the more common ones.
9 Nov
9 Nov
4:52 a.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
What is the availability of 2.8 inch
"Quickdisk" drives and disks?
I saw a bunch of them on eBay recently, previously used for an old Akai
sampler. The Akai S612 used to have an external disk drive box that
used a QuickDisk, otherwise it would load and save samples to tape - all
48k of memory!
Gordon
15 Nov
15 Nov
6:01 p.m.
On Sunday 09 November 2008 01:32, William Donzelli wrote:
What is the availability of 2.8 inch
"Quickdisk" drives and disks?
I believe I have one of those drives kicking around. No disks for it,
though.
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