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to: David Drummond
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2003-08-18 20:01:08
subject: more fun and games with

David Drummond wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

 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
 TW> slightly so 
 TW> even if you take the faceplate off a Standard Floppy it still
 TW> won't work.

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

The Deskpro 566 I have here is one of the ones that uses the oddball drive
he describes...

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