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+Every once in a while I feed a few "interesting" key words into the eBay 
+search engine.  Last night, I happened to find a pair of Teac FD-55F 720k 
+5.25" floppy disk drives for sale at a reasonable price.  I think the pair I
+once had got sold along with an XT clone I used for my FIDO BBS back in the
+day.  They were a neat thing to have in an XT, because they would put twice
+the backup data per floppy on cheap floppies (the kind sold for 360k drives,
+the floppies for 1.2M drives were significantly more expensive!), and with
+two of them you could do a full backup of a reasonable hard disk of the era
+quickly by loading floppies in alternating drives about as fast as you could
+handle them.
+
+But the reason I've been looking for a pair is that before I put them in that
+XT clone, they were the drives I used on my original Ampro Z-80 Little Board
+running CP/M in the mid-80's.  Shoveling through the stuff in the shed a
+while back, I discovered that I still have that board, a bunch of oddball
+accessories I bought or built for it, and a significant pile of floppies and
+documentation that all appear to be in reasonable condition.  
+
+I got a lot of use out of that system back in the day, and it would please me 
+to have it in working order again.  Fingers crossed that the drives I just
+bought on eBay actually work when they get here...
+
+[[!tag tags/retro]]