4 floppy disk drives on a PC?

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 02:53:58 CST 2005


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:52:51 -0800 (PST), Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> Micropolis did soft sectored 100tpi.  (and also made 48tpi)
> Very nice drive, with a somewhat slow helical lead screw positioner.
> The Tandon TM-100-4M was also 100tpi ("M" stood for "micropolis"?)
> 
> When Tony originally wrote that FAQ, we agreed that the 100tpi was obscure
> enough that it didn't need to be mentioned in the FAQ (along with things
> like the AMLYN drive)

I'm having problems remembering off the top of my head, but didn't
Commodore use 100tpi drives rather than 96tpi drives for the 8050/8250
IEEE-488 drives?

Not IBM PC-compatible, but in the non-8088 world, somewhat common, n'est pas?

-ethan



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