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One-third height drives

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barryp

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I think I have two one-third height drives and would hope to find another. OR, to sell/trade the two I have...

Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
 
Aren't just about all 3.5" drives one-third height?

Or do you mean 5.25" drives such as the Teac FD105 (basically the 5.25" part of a FD505)?
 
One-third? Never heard of one-third... though I did have some two-third height drives...
 
I believe I have 2 if you are interested. One is a 360KB drive from a Compaq portable. The other is a 1.2Mb drive (I think). If your interested I can pull them out and take some pictures for you.
 
Chuck(G) said:
The Sharp PC-7000 used them also.
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I should know that since I own one.... though I'd not quite say those are 1/3rd, it's more like a two thirds that can handle two disks, since the drives share the same drive motor... which is great when one drive stops working and the other is fine; you end up trying to replace both and good luck finding a replacement.
 
Chuck(G) said:
Aren't just about all 3.5" drives one-third height?

Or do you mean 5.25" drives such as the Teac FD105 (basically the 5.25" part of a FD505)?
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Sorry, I do mean 5¼" drives.


BUT, I have a few Teac 3½" half-height drives. I'll dig them out and post a picture.
 
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lutiana said:
I believe I have 2 if you are interested. One is a 360KB drive from a Compaq portable. The other is a 1.2Mb drive (I think). If your interested I can pull them out and take some pictures for you.
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I'm interested. I need to find what I have, I'm sure they are 360KB and different brands.
 
barryp said:
BUT, I have a few Teac 3½" half-height drives. I'll dig them out and post a picture.
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Half-height 3.5" drives are pretty uncommon--some of the early Sony drives were 3.5" and I have a half-height Teac FD-235HF. Exactly as high as a half-height 5.25" drive. Otherwise, lots of 1/3 and 1/6 height 3.5" drives.
 
Wasn't the British Imperial measurement system bad enough without you folks using the height of a Full-height disk drive as a measurement standard? Just specify the height in mm!

;-)
 
MikeS said:
Just specify the height in mm!
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The carpenter in me is thinking "Oh, *** that..." -- hell, even our former imperial masters across the pond tell metric where to stick it when it comes to measuring distance or speed.

I always laugh when people say imperial makes no sense; what other measurement system can you divide by 2, 3, 4 and 9 without fractions only using three measurements?

1/3rd of a yard == a foot.
1/3rd a foot or 1/9th of a yard == 4 inches.
1/4th a yard == 9 inches.
1/12th a yard = 3 inches.

Much less the versatility of links, rods and chains. Suck on that metric! HATE metric. Makes no sense, completely arbitrary just because we have ten fingers? EVERY mathematical calculation is HARDER because of it?

But what do I know? I can do sexagesimal in my head.
 
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