Fooling with floppy drives

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Fri Apr 9 23:37:21 1999

>In a message dated 09/04/99 4:56:32 Eastern Daylight Time,
>mikeford_at_netwiz.net writes:
>
><< My plan right now is to first buy some more drives, then sit down with a
> batch and rubber gloves and clean and relube all of them at once. In fact I
> may seek out a box of "bad" floppies to add to my repair run next time I
> see them at the swap meet. Fortunately I just opened up a IIfx from a
> friendly trade and found two excellent condition drives (along with some
> giant double sized 8 MB simms).
> >>
>
>that's a good idea. better to find and hoard those old disk drives for parts
>than have them thrown away for good. that IIfx is nice machine also. treat
>those 8meg simms like gold. they're proprietary to the fx model.

I have about 7 or 8 IIfx now, and given the right old software it is still
a darn impressive machine. I am going to sell off a few to friends, but two
are branded as CrossField LightSpeed on the case, with grey or black
interiors, and those and a couple more I plan to keep as servers etc.

Sad to say many people are scrapping IIfx for the ram, its 25 lbs vs 2
ounces and half the value of a IIfx can be in the ram easily.
Received on Fri Apr 09 1999 - 23:37:21 BST