On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Joe wrote:
> I'm still trying to find out where the 2.4Mb 5 1/4" floppy drives
> came from. I finally got around to taking some pictures of the 2.4Mb
> floppy drive. This one
> <http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/hit2_4/front.jpg> is a picture of the
> front. This one <http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/hit2_4/sled.jpg> is a
> picture of the plastic sled that it's mounted in. This
> <http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/hit2_4/back.jpg> is a picture of the
> back showing the Hitachi label and the connector that plugs into the
> system. This <http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/hit2_4/top.jpg> is a
> picture of the top of the bare drive. And here
> <http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/hit2_4/bottom.jpg> is a picture of the
> bottom. The sled has IBM PN 25F8398 on it. I've searched Google and
> IBM's site for the number but didn't find anything. I found these drives
> in the same pile with some IBM RS/6000 cards. Does anyone know if the
> RS/6000 uses anything like this?
This does look like the drive from a 3174 Controller that someone else
mentioned.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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