"Nintendo floppy systems"
A floppy system on a Nintendo? I've never heard of one. What were they
used for? The only Nintendo devices that I've seen are the game machines
and they use plug-in ROM cartridges.
Joe
At 10:46 AM 12/22/00 +0100, Iggy wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Joe wrote:
>
>> Is anyone familar with the 3" floppy drives? Is that what these
>> "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/misc/3-inch.jpg" are? I pulled them
>> out of a Loral 1553 bus analyzer. As you can see from the photo, a standard
>> 3.5" floppy disk is too large for them. Do these use the same interface as
>> the 3.5" drives? How many tracks do these support? Does anyone have a
>> couple of 3" disks that they're willing to part with?
>
>3-inch drives were popular on Spectrum and Amstrad micros. A variation was
>also used on Nintendo floppy systems. The drive on the picture does indeed
>look like a three-incher, and wasn't Hitachi one of the manufacturers?
>
>
Received on Fri Dec 22 2000 - 09:20:02 GMT
