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To: HKMk23

I have a TRS-80 big floppy drive salvaged from my dad’s office long ago. Weighs about 5-6 lbs. Amazingly heavy castings for the chassis and motor.


623 posted on 08/11/2015 3:19:11 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

There’s one around my mother’s house. somewhere.

The booger about those old things — and the thing that killed off the TRS-80 — was the shielding was nonexistent. If you switched the drive on or off with a disk in it, the resulting pulse in the fields around the power circuitry would nearly always ruin the data on the disk. The TRS-80, itself, exited the market because it wasn’t feasible to make the unit comply with FCC Rules regulating radio frequency emissions.

http://www.trs-80.org/why-was-the-model-i-discontinued/


625 posted on 08/11/2015 3:37:35 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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