Date   : Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:16:19 +0100
From   : tim.fardell@... (Tim Fardell)
Subject: A few more Beeb bits to save from the tip

Rick Murray wrote:
> On 22/07/2010 16:13, J.G.Harston wrote:
> 
>> Odd, most of the dual drive units I've seen are up'n'down, like this:
>> http://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/BBC/pics/Drives/Twin35.jpg
>> (yeh, I know those are 3.5s, imagine they're 5.25s)
> 
> If I could dig it out, I have an up'n'down dual 5.25 set.
> 
> Can't imagine side by side. It just seems such a clumsy 
> (space-inefficient) way to do it.

My two 5.25" dual drives are both side-by-side (although I converted 
one into a dual 3.5" drive), as were all the units we had at our school:

http://www.crumblenet.co.uk/spectrum/bbcdiskdrives.jpg

(sorry, I couldn't be bothered to extract them from the pile to take 
the picture.)

My Dad's work had a couple of BBC machines, and the dual drives with 
those were both up-and-down type. I don't possess any of those.