Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00620
To: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:44:12 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Powerbook Disk drive
Richard Piotter wrote:
> ... I wish PCs had electronics eject! Imagine the abundance of motors
> we'd have then!!! Don't we wish!
But they do! Rip open some CD-ROM drives. There are some impressive
motors
in there. Better still if its a laptop style drive like your MAC
floppy.
> Seriously though, if Apple is ditching
> the traditional floppy for 3rd party 120MB superdisk drives, then it might not
> be at all suprising for a surge of used and unwanted old equipment...
Here's a major secret.
LS-120 superdisks have THE MOST AMAZING motors and gearboxes, all
packaged in a nice, neat easily removable square plastic box.
We are talking major Turbot gear drives here, with unstoppable torque.
The laptop LS-120 superdisks, pure heaven. A small plastic brick with a
motor and gear drive half the size of a BG Micro lens motor.
(honest!)
(especialy
> with the old iMac going for as little as $900!) That equipment may include
> drives! I'll be watching the Macintosh surplus and refurbishing places for old
> drives, cause all Mac drives that i know f have a DC eject motor with a nice
> gear box! It's an akward shape and gear setup, but usable. I think people on the
> list have built robots with Mac eject motors.
Just wait till you get your teeth into the LS-120 drives!
These will be the stuff of BEAM dreams in a few years (when they all
break).
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