Heatkit 5 1/4 floppies

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Wed Apr 7 14:22:56 1999

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:

> These were in common use on Z89's and Z-90's. Heathkit used drives made
> by
> Tandon and Siemens. The Siemens drives were kinda unique: It used a
> disk with a spiral groove for the head positioner.

Hmmm... hardly that unique it would seem... The Shugart SA-400 series
drives used that same positioning systems (first?).

-jim
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