On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Al Hartman wrote:
> > > I always preferred Tandon TM-100 drives. . . .
> I found it wasn't the pins themselves, it was the
> plastic hinges in the doors.
Absolutely right. Not the pins, but the pin holders of the
doors. Glueing didn't work well. But with so many companies
using those drives, it wasn't hard to get parts.
> I must have somewhere all sorts of patched OS'es for
> my old Model I. DoubleDOS, TrsDOS, NewDOS 2.1,
> NewDOS/80, LDOS, VTOS, DosPLUS, the list goes on and
> on...
One fellow around here used the wangtek 150RPM drive and patched the OS
(probably LDOS) for 8" DSDD to get a 5.25" with 1.2M.
> I got rather good at that, and used to sell home-made
> kits for people to punch their own disks. As well as
I sold a lot of my "Flip-Jig"s. Even sold a few more at VCF last year.
> installing Electric Pencil Lowercase Mods into Model I
> Keyboards.
We did a kit for lower case, software controlled reverse video, and a
little noise.
> Those REALLY were the days...
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sun Feb 23 2003 - 21:01:00 GMT