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Offline Castellen

Re: A3000 floppy mystery
« on: December 13, 2003, 08:35:23 PM »
A majority of all the A3000s I've worked on have had a Chinon FB-357A fitted.

If it's a FZ-357, then it's your lucky day, as that's the special high density drive which are quite hard to get, therefore expensive. :-)
 

Offline Castellen

Re: A3000 floppy mystery
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2003, 01:35:24 AM »
Sorry, you're right.  The FB and FZ-357 are high density drives.
It was the FB-354 commonly shipped with A3000s.
 

Offline Castellen

Re: A3000 floppy mystery
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2003, 02:56:50 AM »
Yep, I was referring to the FZ-357A which is definately high density, as is the FB-357A (I'm watching one right now read a high density disk :-)).

As I recall, the FZ-357A came (only?) in the slim variety, and I suspect the FB-357A was full height only, as is the double density FB-354.
There may have been full height FZ-357A drives at one point?  Thought I had one among my spare parts, but can't find it.

I guess there must be a big list explaining all these confusing model numbers somewhere.  Does anyone know of one??