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Who restores 5.25 floppy drives? - mightyframe - 06-21-2015 Hi! Last year at CommVEx, Jim Drew once spoke of a John who restores 5.25" floppy drives. https://youtu.be/4VDDgaK34ZU?t=15m18s "John buys drives off the internet, cleans them, aligns them on an oscilloscope, test them, etc" I restore vintage AT&T UNIX PCs, and other equipment manufactured by Convergent Technologies. These machines take the older 360k disks (only), and support 8 or 10 sectors per track formatting only on double-density disks. (High-Density disks will not work). The UNIX PC uses these models: TEAC FD-55B-01-U or the TEAC FD-55BV-06-U I could not get the FD-55GFR model to work, so I am guessing that only the older versions of this drive, as I list above, will work with the UNIX PC. Does John have any restored versions of this, or can he do a restoration on one of these that I could ship to him? Thanks everyone, much appreciated! -AJ http://MightyFrame.com RE: Who restores 5.25 floppy drives? - mightyframe - 06-21-2015 I might have answered my own question about who Jim Drew was referring to in the above linked video. John Ferrell? https://youtu.be/6xJyvbsdyts John, if this is you, do you restore drives like I reference above? Thanks! -AJ http://MightyFrame.com |