On 4/18/24 14:01, paul.kimpel--- via cctalk wrote:
> The tape for the Burroughs 220 drives was not metallic. It was 3/4-inch wide,
> and I think a Mylar sandwich. It could be spliced much the same way you would
> have spliced quarter-inch reel-to-reel audio tape back in the day.
>
The Datamatic
Bill, so the disk drives are gone?
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> On Apr 18, 2024, at 14:36, Bill Degnan via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Not sure if you mean me, "Bill", but I sold or gave away all of the Apple's
> that I had for sale, about 15 or so all gone.
>
> I did not have any original II's for sale.
Not sure if you mean me, "Bill", but I sold or gave away all of the Apple's
that I had for sale, about 15 or so all gone.
I did not have any original II's for sale. Only surplus II+, IIe, IIc,
original MACs (mac plus, SE, classic, SE FD and that style.
This was all a fundraiser for kennett
The main storage area of the ElectroData/Burroughs Datatron 205 was 20 tracks
of 200 words each for a total of 4000 words. The drum rotated at 3570 RPM, so
the average access time was about 8.4ms.
The four quick-access tracks (or "loops" as they were called) were 20 words
each and worked as a
The tape for the Burroughs 220 drives was not metallic. It was 3/4-inch wide,
and I think a Mylar sandwich. It could be spliced much the same way you would
have spliced quarter-inch reel-to-reel audio tape back in the day.
If the tape controller detected a parity error, it would backspace the
Mostly to Bill, but also anyone else hanging out here who's got a surfeit
of 8-bit Apple stuff:
If you're planning on selling the Apple II, and it's not a ][+, I'd be
interested in buying. Not, perhaps, at optimistic eBay prices, but I have
a lot of ][+s and //es, most of them in working shape,
