Data Systems Design DSD-880 8" floppy and hard drive?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun Jul 20 00:27:00 2003

At 09:25 PM 7/19/03 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I had one of these boards connected to a pair of Qume (851) drives back in
>the early 80's. They worked GREAT, could read, write, and format RX01, RX02,
>and with a modified driver, did DSDD for about 1.2mb per floppy!
>
>I wish I had one of these controllers now (I have a pair of 8" drives).
>

   Carefull what you wish for, it could come true!

   Seriously I can get the chassis if you want one (or both). But I've
already grabbed the drives out of them. Both had one Shugart floppy drive
and an 8" hard drive in them. One had a WD1004 hard drive and the other had
a Quantum Q2040. I'm not sure if the floppy drive in them was SS or DS. I
just grabbed the drives and they were mixed up with other similar drives.
But I ended up with one DS drive and about 10 SS ones so they most likely
had SS drives in them. I also don't know if the controller/interface card
that goes in the computer is still around or not. There are (were?) a
couple of chaasis there with DEC cards in them but I have no idea which
card(s) are needed for the drive system or if the necessary card(s) are there.

    Joe
Received on Sun Jul 20 2003 - 00:27:00 BST