Date : Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:13:14 +0100
From : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: Fw: DD & HD Floppies
Mark Haysman wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Taylor" <zeem.uk@...>
>
>> * Something is niggling in the back of my mind that there may have
>> been some 3.5" 40-track drives in existence, but I'm not quite sure. I
>> know some early Atari STs used single-sided 80-track ones.
>
> I've not come across any 40 track 3.5" drives, but the Electron Plus 3 also
> used a single sided 80 track drive.
I have come across a 40 track 3.5" drive but I'm not sure what it was
from as it wasn't my drive, and I only had the bare drive not the
computer that it was originally in :(
Humm should get round to swapping my Plus 3 drive dor a DS one :)
Cheers.
Phill.
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