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  3. May 2021

Re[2]: Floppy drives on ancient AS/400's

Hey, we do have a 9348 connected using 2749 HVD SCSI to a 9406-170.
At least 3 years ago i made a save21 and IPLed from the reel tape.

It’s a very important part of our museum to show the kiddies the
difference to a 128GB USB thumb drive :)

-h



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Von: "Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

The most common early unit was 1600 and 3200 BPI (the later not a standard density) It had a smoked color plastic door that you really couldn't see through. The control panel was terrible and it was so unreliable it was referred to as the '9347 piece of shit.' IBM replaced the planar board in ours half a dozen times. It was not an IBM manufactured drive. The 9348 replace it and it did 1600 and 6250 BPI. (It could not read the 3200 BPI tapes) It was fabulously more reliable and the same size as the older unit. Tapes in these were slid into the front like a pizza.



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