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Offline AmmoJammoTopic starter

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What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« on: February 17, 2013, 05:37:31 AM »
For all i know, it might have a brand name inside, but I thought I'd post a pic here instead, as its a bit different (and ugly)

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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2013, 06:21:01 AM »
Hi it looks a little like my Cumana cax 354 external floppy drive thats been powder coated black only yours is left handed and certainly not ugly as different often makes beautiful ,nice photo by the way ,best wishes Brian.
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2013, 07:08:00 AM »
Now this is a tough one :-/ LOL
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2013, 07:39:40 AM »
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Hi it looks a little like my Cumana cax 354 external floppy drive thats been powder coated black only yours is left handed and certainly not ugly as different often makes beautiful ,nice photo by the way ,best wishes Brian.

I've never seen one that looks like that, mine is this style
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cumana-CAX-354-Disk-Drive-for-Commodore-Amiga-2-/400368911734?nma=true&si=725%252FiZMxrN2b6H7Uj8%252BzGm7ZfhA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
 
Later they did http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Cumana-CAX-354-Floppy-disk-drive/
 
They are both quarter height drives, but the black one likes half height (although it might be the angle of the photo).
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2013, 07:49:13 AM »
Yeah, I looked up the Cumana drives, and was quite confused as there was nothing like it :p

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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2013, 09:15:00 AM »
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Yeah, I looked up the Cumana drives, and was quite confused as there was nothing like it :p
 

lol are you sure :D:D:D:D:D Mrmoonlight   ps i only said a lttle like ,or maybe if you  were  to close one eye and stand back a little ,the cumana cax may be a distant cousin,
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2013, 05:53:07 AM »
Not even a guess from anyone?
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2013, 01:53:10 PM »
The face plate looks like an Atari Drive. Here is one with a very similar face.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/farnea/264773831/in/photostream
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2013, 08:08:06 PM »
Same same, but different? :p
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2013, 11:19:41 PM »
I'm guessing you know what drive it is? ;-)

Are we able to see inside the case photo's? ;-)
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2013, 05:50:21 AM »
I know the make and model of the drive... but I'm curious as to what company assembled the case, and made the PCB adapter that appears to be required to use it on an Amiga ;)
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2013, 07:52:48 PM »
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2013, 08:48:37 PM »
Actually I don't know about your drive a thing, but as a matter of fact I have this ugly beast lying around, which is almost same looking front cover and I was thinking the same, what is this came from (It's TEAC made as I can see)? As I tested on one of my Amigas it worked as internal drive, but when it arrived to me, it had handmade steel external case with mucho wires going everywhere inside it, very very hacky stuff, so I discarded this case. This seems very old...

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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2013, 06:00:12 AM »
Nope, this drive isn't a TEAC ;)
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Re: What's this floppy drive/who makes it? :p
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2013, 12:24:40 PM »
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Nope, this drive isn't a TEAC ;)


Obviously the mechanism is, could it be Skai?  They rebadged a lot of stuff mid 80s to early 90s.
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