3" Drive

[toddtmw]

Hive mind:

 

Back near the end of my experience with 8-bit Atari, a friend had a 3" drive (not 3.5) for his Atari. I think it had 2 drives.

 

Does anyone remember this? Anyone have links to what it it was or more information?

 

Or was this a hallucination brought on by too much Def Leppard and Scorpions music?

 

Thanks.

[+kheller2]

Amdek?

 

http://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n4/floppies.html

[Kyle22]

I would venture to say that since it (the above link) says they support 5" drives, you could swap out the 3's for 3.5's without too much trouble.

 

Are there any of these still out there? Schematics? High speed possible? 80 track mod?

[+slx]

I would venture to say that since it (the above link) says they support 5" drives, you could swap out the 3's for 3.5's without too much trouble.

 

Are there any of these still out there? Schematics? High speed possible? 80 track mod?

 

Looking at the picture you'd be hard pressed (or have to press hard ) to swap those miniature 3" drives for 5" ones...

 

3" floppies were cool and I eyed that Amdek unit article a lot in my late first 8-bit days... Later I actually used 3" floppies on an Amstrad computer and they felt much sturdier than 3,5" floppies. With DS/"high" density it would fit 720K on a floppy.

[Kyle22]

I didn't mean to install 5.25 drives in the enclosure. I simply meant that if the controller supports them, then it should be easy to use 3.5 inch drives (which may fit inside with small modifications).

[+bf2k+]

I had one of the Amdek 3" dual drives on my BBS in the 80's. It had two Teac 5.25" Quad-density drives hanging on it.