Re: tlug: Re: SPARC floppy drives..?

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Marchak <joem@example.com> writes:

    Joe> Scott wrote:
    >> The other day, while waiting for CDs to burn, I was staring
    >> intently at this SPARC/2 that I got at the tlug auction in
    >> October.  It suddenly dawned on me that there's no floppy drive
    >> in it!  I would have felt silly putting a disk in the hole just
    >> to have it fall down onto the bottom of the case :)
    >> 
    >> Anyhow, I can't do anything with it until I get a floppy drive
    >> for it.  Does anyone know where I can buy one and how much they
    >> cost?  Internal floppy disk, sparc/2...?

    Joe> You can use a normal PC floppy drive on a SPARC.  The only
    Joe> difference is that "normal" floppy drives lack the motor
    Joe> needed to eject the disk.  I've done this on a Sparc 2 with
    Joe> no problems.

Joe,

	Didn't know that. The Ultra-5's and 10's now have manual eject
as well :( What's happening to Sun? The Ultra lack SCSI as well...

Give me that old trusty hardware :)

Andy
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