Re: Drive capacity names (Was: WTB: HP-85 16k RAM Module and HPIB Floppy Drive

2017-11-17 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctech 
On 11/17/2017 09:17 AM, allison via cctech wrote:

> Also the Syquest 270mb IDE/parallel port cartridge disk.  I have one
> that works
> and over a dozen carts.  Its still in use in a ITX box using the IDE
> interface.  After
> two decades of use it seems solid.

I've left out the non-floppy technologies.   I have a Squest Sparq,
unused still in its packaging, for example.  After being sent one for
evaluation, I rejected it because it was offered only in the
printer-port version, which necessarily limits transfer bandwidth.

But there were plenty of "floppy" technologies, such as the UHD144, or
LS120 or Drivetec stuff.   I treat Bernoulli and Zip as a floppy-sort-of
technology, because they are incapable of reading standard floppies, so
I don't include them either, even though they employed flexible media.

--Chuck

Re: Drive capacity names (Was: WTB: HP-85 16k RAM Module and HPIB Floppy Drive

2017-11-17 Thread allison via cctech 
On 11/16/2017 03:30 PM, Geoffrey Reed via cctech wrote:
>
> On 11/15/17, 9:44 AM, "cctalk on behalf of Fred Cisin via cctalk"
>  wrote:
>> Can you name another 20 exceptions?   (Chuck and Tony probably can)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Grumpy Ol' Fred  ci...@xenosoft.com
>
>  ³Floptical² disks 720 rpm 1.6 Mb/s transfer 1250 TPI and 25MB unformatted
> capacity
>
>  LS-120 and LS-240 (which sadly I can¹t remember the specs of :(
>
>
>

Also the Syquest 270mb IDE/parallel port cartridge disk.  I have one
that works
and over a dozen carts.  Its still in use in a ITX box using the IDE
interface.  After
two decades of use it seems solid.

Allison