do you need to tear the metal shutter off of a modern 3.5: floppy for it to work in an SMC-70?
29 Jan
29 Jan
2:01 p.m.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Chris Tofu wrote:
this I was told. Anyone?
The VERY EARLIEST 3.5" floppies did not have shutters AT ALL.
Later 3.5" floppies had a spring loaded manual shutter; you opened it
manually, at which point it latched, and then there was a specific point
on the disk to squeeze ("PINCH") that would release the latch and the
spring would close it.
I used an SMC-70 with those disks at Comdex one year.
Later 3.5" floppies had the current "automatic" shutter. BUT, for many
years, it still had the "PINCH" spot label. THEN, it just had an arrow
pointing to that spot, but because that also indicated which end of the
disk to put into the drive (DUH.), there wasn't a need to remove that
mark.
When I finally got an SMC-70 ~15 years ago, it had modern style drives.
Didn't the 600RPM "full height" 3.5" drives (the earliest
("FIRST"??) 3.5"
drives?) accept modern "auto-shutter" disks?
30 Jan
30 Jan
1:40 p.m.
Didn't the 600RPM "full height" 3.5" drives (the earliest
("FIRST"??) 3.5"
drives?) accept modern "auto-shutter" disks?
I beleive the very first ones didn't
Somewhere I have an old HP 3.5" disk with the pinch-to-close shutter.
I read in one of the HP bopardswapper guidss that thewre was a covnersion
kit fo the 3.5" drive to allow the use of automatcic shutter disks. The
drives in question were, of ocurse, the full-height 600rpm Sony ones.
What the kit consisted of, and how to install it, was not mentions. I
would assume a complete now loading mechanism/disk holder with the leer
to open the shutter.
-tony
2:59 p.m.
> Didn't the 600RPM "full height"
3.5" drives (the earliest ("FIRST"??) 3.5"
> drives?) accept modern "auto-shutter" disks?
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
I beleive the very first ones didn't
Somewhere I have an old HP 3.5" disk with the pinch-to-close shutter.
I've
got a few Shugart 3.5 floppies (before shutters)
I read in one of the HP bopardswapper guidss that
thewre was a covnersion
kit fo the 3.5" drive to allow the use of automatcic shutter disks. The
drives in question were, of ocurse, the full-height 600rpm Sony ones.
What the kit consisted of, and how to install it, was not mentions. I
would assume a complete now loading mechanism/disk holder with the leer
to open the shutter.
Or a CLAW to rip the shutter off with?
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