Panasonic 8" Optical Drive

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Sep 7 21:50:02 2000

Marvin,

  If it's what I think it is then I have two NIB optical disks for it.
They're Panasonic part number TQ-FD22 and they're made by Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co in Japan. Make an offer if you're interested in the
disks. FWIW these are more surplus from NASA KSC.

    Joe

At 05:03 PM 9/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Anyone familiar with:
>
>Panasonic 8" optical Drive
>Removeable Cartridges
>Model DU-15LU
>Manufactured 1987 by Mitsushita (sp?)
>
>Someone gave me a call today to see if I had one. I don't and told him I
>would put it out to the listserver. Also, are there any other units by other
>companies that will read these cartridges? The main concern here is data
>recovery. The second concern is that I will then see if I can obtain that
>computer :)! My understanding is that only five of these units were sold in
>the US and four were returned since they were not networkable (fact or
>fiction?)
>
Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 21:50:02 BST