IBM drives in a Kaypro

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Feb 12 13:35:08 2003

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, chris wrote:
> I have some half height 5.25 360K drives. They are working pulls from PC
> clones. I don't think I have any full height ones. Some (most?) are
> black, and many have that little imprinted asterick that designated the
> 360K "B" drive as opposed to the 1.2MB "A" drive.

The asterisk identifies a "360K" drive. Whether you put it in B: or A: is
entirely up to you. Not everybody uses a 1.2M for A:.

If a drive does NOT have an asterisk, then it is either a 1.2M, OR a 360K
from before the time that IBM realized that they needed to differentiate
and chose the wrong one to label, OR a 360K from most other manufacturers
other than those building drives for IBM.
(Common sense: if you create a new type of something and need to label
them as being different, should you label the NEW type, or a
subset of the subsequent production of the OLD type?)
Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 13:35:08 GMT