Al salaam a'alaykum Tom

17 Aug 03 08:20, Tom Walker wrote to Charles Angelich:

 ->> WC> There was someone here complaining about the absurd cost of
 ->> WC> of an H.P. floppy drive but I've found they're just generic
 ->> WC> NEC drives. 

 ->> That was me a year or more ago when my daughter didn't want to
 ->> replace her dead floppy drive in an HP because of the cost. 

 TW>  Compaq is all Pripority Floppies as I recall. They hare Standard 
 TW> Make drives,the two I have handy are TEACS, BUT are special production
 TW> runs for Compaq and they Standard drive dosne't match up with the 
 TW> Compaq Front panel. They have the Eject button has been moved slightly so 
 TW> even if you take the faceplate off a Standard Floppy it still won't work.

Which particular Compaq are you speaking of? The Deskpro EN/SB PII-350 I
have here uses an ordinary FDD - that could be replaced with any other
generic FDD. It has a standard 3.5" rectangular hole in the front
panel of the machine.

Regards,
David

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