Hi CHARLES.

15-Dec-03 04:58:00, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to JASEN BETTS


 CA> 1237e1750cd8 tech

 CA> Hello Jasen -

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 TW>>> IBM used to have motorized Eject Floppy drive on the origional
 TW>>> PS2 computers.

 JB>> hmm the PS/2 floppy drive I have has a bright blue eject button
 JB>> with "1.44" written on it... it came out of a 386sx based ps/2

 JB>> I haven't looke closeley enough to see if it has an eject
 JB>> motor...

 CA> I've had 2 PS/2s here. One was the 80286 and the other was the
 CA> 80386sx. Neither had motorized eject but they did have a spring
 CA> that tossed the floppy halfway out of the drive when you pushed
 CA> the eject button. :-)

The apple drives I have here work on a similar principle the eject is
string-loaded the motor only unlatches the spring. the motor complete
with reduction gear is about the size of a cube of sugar.

 -=> Bye <=-

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