Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00619
To: beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:33:49 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Powerbook Disk drive
The motors I'm tng about are the Eject motors from Mac floppy drives. The old
Apple II drives were powered straight from the computer's disk controller card,
so i bet they realy had to consider the motor's curent consumption! How big were
they? Been a long time since I took one of those old drives apart.
As for the motor in my powerbook, it's SMALL!!! Geared nicely too! Watch for
dead or surplus macs for walker motors!
--
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
The Richfiles Robotics & TI web page:
http://members.xoom.com/richfiles
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