> I _have_ one of those!  Problems with the drives,
 > though...

    Yup. They took a LOT of maintenance.

 > Voice-coil activated,  even.  But they used *light
 > bulbs* for index sensors and such,  where newer drives
 > used LEDs.  I'm thinking that's likely part of the
 > problem with it.

    They were a typical Cromemco mixture of high-tech and low-tech that
staggers the imagination. Replace their function with a working Smartmedia
reader/writer hidden inside the disk slot. That will give you 128MB random
access.

 > I have one of those,  too.  Used to have a few,  but
 > some of them ended up being scrapped out.  Serial
 > interface,  no sheet feeder.

    In their day they came very close to typesetters for their
presentation. Inkjet technology is so much more versatile, but that comes
at a cost. CDOS fit into 12 KB of eight bit memory. Inkjet dirivers alone
take more than that.

 > I have one of those here too,  maybe 20MB or so of
 > stuff on it...   Not all of the drives here care for
 > it too much,  particularly the 4x4 changers.  They
 > don't know quite how to handle it.

    I have only three working drives - one CDROM (44x) on this. One DVD/CD
attached to the entertainment system, and a DVD/CD/RW combo drive on the
laptop. They all managed to read it OK. I'm getting a combo drive for this
at the weekend, but there is no guarantee that it will work.

    We seem to have travelled in parallel.

Best Wishes,
Bill.

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