40 cylinder 3.5" drive (was: DD disks and HD drives

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Jun 26 14:34:37 2000

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
> Incidentally, looking through old catalogues, I found a reference to a 40
> cylinder 3.5" drive. Has anyone ever seen one of those? Looks like a
> chance for the same sort of incompatabilities with the normal 80 cylinder
> 3.5" drives as the 5.25" people experience!

Epson Geneva PX-8
~67.5 tpi
can be read by double-stepping regular "720K" drive. It probably has the
same track width problems, but I've never had a chance to try.

also some models of the Tandy drive for the model 100 (I don't know
off-hand WHICH models)


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