vintage 3.5" disk drives

From: Curt vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Tue Oct 28 00:05:35 2003

Fred,

  ah this is great dude!!! Now if I can just find some photo's of these
beasties or even an actual unit, thanks again!



Curt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: vintage 3.5" disk drives


> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Curt vendel wrote:
> > Did Seagate and/or Shugart get into making 3.5" floppy disk drives
around
> > 83/84??? Anyone have pics of very early 3.5" disk drives?
>
> D'ya mean, as in prototypes?
>
> The first Shugart production 3.5" drive was the SA300.
> ONE of the early users was Gavilan, who put their own bezel on it.
> Previously, Gavilan had used a 3" drive.
>
> The Shugart SA350 was double sided. (It could be used in a Gavilan, using
> MS-DOS 2.11 J or above, and the Gavilan faceplate would fit)
>
>
> Seagate did not make floppies.
>
>
> OB_History:
> Alan Shugart started Shugart Associates, and developed floppy drives.
> He sold Shugart Associates (to Xerox?), and then started working on
> hard drives, with a new company, Shugart Technology. ST506, ST412,
> etc. Xerox, who had purchased Shugart Associates, considered that
> to be trademark infringement, since they now owned the name Shugart
> (MORAL: don't name your company after yourself, or selling it loses
> you your own name!) He changed the company name to Seagate.
>
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