Help aligning Kaypro disk drives?

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Fri May 22 21:06:18 1998

D. Peschel wrote:
>
> A while ago I got a Kaypro 4'84 system for free and have been trying to bring
> it back to a state of stability and usefulness. The system as a whole was in
> good shape; my problems have been with the disk drives.

> I have two spare drives; one is evidently SSDD and the other is DSDD -- I have
> not tested them. Only the DSDD drive is really suitable. These are, IIRC,
> 96-tpi MFM drives. They are made by TEC. (Not the same as TEAC, I suppose.)

_Maybe_ a Kaypro 4 can use 96-TPI drives, but I wouldn't bet the
ranch. You want 48 tpi drives - real DD, not 96 tpi, QD or worse
HD. There are a gagload of such drives available, gut any 8088
PC you find at the curbside.
-- 
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
				Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Fri May 22 1998 - 21:06:18 BST

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