Panasonic 8" Optical Drive

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Sep 8 07:52:37 2000

At 10:57 PM 9/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hi Joe,
>
>The problem is that the optical disks already exist, but the reader has been
>damaged.

   That's what I thought.

Do you happen to have (or can get a hold of) the machine used to
>read and write to these disks?

  No, I have no idea. These disks came from an auction and I didn't see any
sign of the machine that used them.

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!

    I'll look around for the machine but I wouldn't hold my breath till I
found one.

    Joe
>
>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 - 07:52:37 BST