Panasonic 8" Optical Drive

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Fri Sep 8 00:57:27 2000

Hi Joe,

The problem is that the optical disks already exist, but the reader has been
damaged. Do you happen to have (or can get a hold of) the machine used to
read and write to these disks? I'll check tomorrow and see if he is
interested in more disks. From my conversation with him this afternoon, he
is very interested in getting something to read the existing disks so he can
recover the data on them. Thanks!

Marvin

Joe wrote:
>
> 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 Fri Sep 08 2000 - 00:57:27 BST