Heatkit 5 1/4 floppies

From: Jeffrey l Kaneko <jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com>
Date: Wed Apr 7 18:35:41 1999

Interesting. The Siemens drives were the only ones I've
ever seen that use this scheme. But then again, I didn't
look closely at the Shugarts in the Burroughs word processors
when I took my first real job ("you're not qualified").

These were the only ones I've ever seen.

Jeff

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:22:56 -0700 (PDT) James Willing
<jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com> writes:
>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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