TRS80 help needed

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Aug 22 11:43:39 2001

In reality that's what the 6106's are, and I should have been more precise about
the way I described them. The ones that I have were shipped with a front face
that fit a full-height slot. The BASF 6106 doc's I've had since '82 or so are
out on my carport where I put them one time when my basement was suffering from
excess water. Some years have elapsed since then, however, since the water
comes back more frequently than the urge to put things away.

I may actually find them again, if that might help. I'm sure the spec doesn't
call for a mallet, however. I think the Europeans developed a furniture door
closure similar to what this drive uses, i.e. push to close, push to open. I
have it on a number of my Scandinavian furniture pieces.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: TRS80 help needed


> > > One of the external drives is a BASF Model 6106, would this by
> > > chance be an early hard drive? It is built like a full height floppy, but
> > > there is no place to put one! Any information on it would be much
appreciated.
> > If it could be a BASF 6186, it would be a 15mb ST-506 MFM drive with 4
> > Hds, 440 Cyl, and 17 SPT. RWC and WPC are both at 220. Drive is 5.25"
> > Full High.
>
> BASF also made a 2/3 height floppy (could get 3 into a double bay). It
> was the first 5.25" drive smaller than "full height" that I saw. It also
> was the first one that I saw that had a D.O.A. failure rate of more than
> 50%. The door on it was not very obvious - you push on the door and then
> let it pop open. I recommend pushing on that door with a very large
> mallet.
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
>
>
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