Date : Tue, 21 Jan 1986 13:48:09 GMT
From : pete%stc.uucp@BRL.ARPA
Subject: Re: 40 track drives on Apple CP/M
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In article <1598@brl-tgr.ARPA> Kushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA writes:
>Later Shugart updated the drive design to 40 tracks, and 40 tracks has
>been standard on 5.25 inch drives for quite a while now. I don't know of
>any other companies that make 35 track drives. Shugart drives labled
I have a couple of Pertec FD250s that were originally 35 track.
The cam is long enough, but there's a limit stop on the head slide.
It's quite an easy matter to fix this (with a hacksaw!). I fixed one
of my drives for 40 track for disk interchange purposes.
--
Peter Kendell <pete@stc.UUCP>
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