[Coco] what kind of drives are these?

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Tue Oct 17 19:18:26 EDT 2017


On Tuesday 17 October 2017 19:08:31 Arthur Flexser wrote:

> Blowing up the image shows the drive is a Western Digital Caviar 2850
> (nice that the drive has the name and model number in prominent big
> characters so you can read it), which has a capacity of 853.6 MB.
>
> Art
From the 2 cable arrangement, it has to be an MFM drive, and thats well 
above the capacity of any MFM drive that I ever saw.
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Rietveld Rietveld
> <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > https://www.kijiji.ca/v-desktop-computers/norfolk-county/2-
> > radioshack-computer-and-drives-and-parts/1306104009?en
> > ableSearchNavigationFlag=true&uli=true
> >
> > [https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODAwWDgwMA==/z/c4cAAOSwyGZZ5oQ-/$_20.JPG
> >]<
> > https://www.kijiji.ca/v-desktop-computers/norfolk-county/2-radioshac
> >k- computer-and-drives-and-parts/1306104009?enableSearchNavigat
> > ionFlag=true&uli=true>
> >
> > 2 RadioShack computer and drives and parts | Desktop Computers |
> > Norfolk County |
> > Kijiji<https://www.kijiji.ca/v-desktop-computers/norfolk-cou
> > nty/2-radioshack-computer-and-drives-and-parts/1306104009?en
> > ableSearchNavigationFlag=true&uli=true>
> > www.kijiji.ca
> > estate find 1 radioshack micro computer 1 radioshack trs80 color
> > computer 2 floppy drives 1 hard drive and controller 1 joystick 1
> > radioshack color computer board box of cables i don't know much
> > about this system. it was an estate find. i am not sure how to use
> > everything but it turns on and the screen looks clear. the computer
> > has some cables built in that connect to composite
> >
> > does anyone know what kind of drives these are?
> >
> >
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