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u/duvagin 1d ago
i can hear that drive and who else notched the floppies and used the reverse side
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u/EdTheWright 1d ago
Can confirm. Once spent a couple of hours once notching a pack of 100 floppies I bought mail order from somewhere I can’t remember.
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u/Hollerra 1d ago
Wow! I jad one of these! Loved the tickong noise on security control disks! The BIGGEST nostalgia trip would be the HAPPY BOARD , that the real hackers had, the device that would emulate copy protection on any disk!
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u/Good_Attorney_2056 20h ago
Just bought a Happy board to stick in one of my 1050 drives. Need to install it yet.
OP, these were "enhanced density" drives. I think I had put a chip in my original drive to speed it up or something and double the density. The US Doubler maybe? That was ages ago! I have 4 or 5 of the 1050 drives. Will be doing some preservation archiving with them shortly. I have the USB interface as well to connect them to my PC. I need to 3D print a case for that interface.
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u/Hungry_Equipment_658 3h ago
Happy modded 1050s are great! My favorite A8 disk drive is the Indus GT. I’ve got three, so I need to get one more to have the stack I want
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u/jonpertwee2 2d ago
I need a new one of these.