Ah yes... the Model 2 had one built in, with an optional 3-bay extension. Gary
On 9/27/07, Warner Mach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Donzelli wrote: > > I have just started to fool around with a 4331-2 (and 3830), and the > > IPL floppy is just plain tired. Not the drive, but the floppy media > > itself! But then, what can one expect from a 30 year old disk. > > > > Anyway, is there anyone out in IBM land that can write a 23FD 8 inch > > floppy anymore? It is an odd format (the original, actually) of 80K or > > so, and the drives are almost always read only - including mine. I > > know there were some independent resellers and such that modified the > > drives for writing. Does anyone know of any? > <snip> > OK ... Here is a real long shot ... I expect that I will be jumped > all over (But what the heck - live dangerously) as to why this is not > possible ... How about picking up an old Radio Shack TRS-80 on E-bay to > do the copying (TRS-80 used 8-inch drives). > . > The only reason I mention this is because many decades ago there was > an 'urban legend' that someone had, in fact, taken an IPL floppy drive > and put it into a TRS-80 and modified the microcode and managed to > cause havoc for the IBM CE's. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
