>What little I could see in the picture looked sort of like a
>Sony drive mechanism with the square eject button. True?
I would have to open the device up to check on that... and they
packed stuff in there pretty tightly. The last time I tried to
open it up, I had to stop as I hadn't located all the release
points for the boards. I'll have to try again...
>Early Sony 3.5" diskettes and drives had a manual diskette shutter.
>You had to slide the shutter to the open position, and it would lock
>open. Then you could insert the diskette. When you ejected the
>diskette, you were expected to pinch it (that little arrow in the
>upper left corner used to point to the word "PINCH") to release the
>shutter; a spring would pull it closed.
Interesting... I know that I was entirely unable to insert a
standard 3.5" floppy... I had to remove the sliding window,
adn even then it didn't feel like it was inserting correctly...
>Fred Cisin probably knows more about this than I do, I just remember
>seeing some of the early HP stiffies that were usable this way so that
>they would work in older stiffy drives. They weren't hard to find in
>1984 or so, though then-current drives were "automatic".
If I can take it apart and get a picture, maybe you or he could
truly identify it...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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