From eea69088ebadc3305933e9a0f93aa4f49ed6e72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bdale Garbee Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:01:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] post --- bdale/blog/posts/Teac_FD-55F.mdwn | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bdale/blog/posts/Teac_FD-55F.mdwn diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Teac_FD-55F.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Teac_FD-55F.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d8080f --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Teac_FD-55F.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +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]] -- 2.30.2