Hi Roy,

On 11-Oct-03, Roy J. Tellason wrote to George White:

 RJT>> Is that the weird ones I've seen in some musical equipment,
 RJT>> where you flip them over?  Those drives were often a problem..

 GW>> How would I know? As I said above, I've never come across another
 GW>> use of them.

 RJT> Oh.  Mike seems to think so...

I'm sure he's right. I have very little contact with that sort of kit.

 GW>> The only musical instrument I've seen with a floppy is the fully
 GW>> loaded Fairlight a friend of mine has, that uses 5.25 disks.

 RJT> As much as I used to work in the MI field,  I've never actually
 RJT> seen one of those,  nor do I know much of anything about them.
 RJT> There were some E-mu keyboards that I can recall that actually
 RJT> had a pair of 5.25" HD drives in there.  I'm sure that the
 RJT> technology has come a long way since I stopped working on that
 RJT> stuff back in 1992,  though...  :-

1992? It was old stuff then... Its a twin _Z80_ processor fully
programmable synth. Includes light pen capability to draw the
waveforms. Several well known groups used them, my friend has taken it
to recording sessions when old bands have wanted to recreate old
sounds and hav'nt got the kit in their line-up and can't readily do it
with the modern kit. (at the last count he had a total of somewhere
around 12 synths, including a mini-moog and lots of other good _old_
stuff).


George

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