The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[Running Bear]

BTW, I started out using 8" floppies and I still have a bunch of 5 1/4" and 3.5" ones with drives to read them if need be, although I doubt that I ever will. It boggles the mind, my first computer with a HD had 40 mB capacity and was took up two internal spaces (around 5" high), I just bought a one terabyte drive that fits in my pocket. Times have sure changes...

I take it your 5¼" floppies are Tandy or IBM compatible? Hey, my first hard disk was ten megs and was bigger than a four slice pop-up toaster. At that time 48k was normal for RAM. My Apples at 64k and 128k were giants. I still have my original floppy drives. At 4.8" high, 8.6" long and 6" wide they were big then. Now they're huge! I have two Apple half-height floppy drives but they're just not as heavy and rugged as the big Disk II drives. The Disk II drive is easy to take apart and put back together. A kid can do it. The Uni-Disk, Platinum 5¼ and the Duo-Disk aren't so easy to work on as everything is pushed closer together and there are screws galore!

Here are a Lobo Drives Disk II clone (same size as the Disk II) and an Apple Platinum 5¼ A9M0107 Disk drive. At three inches high it's still big.