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Yeah, it was a single-drive duplicator, and you loaded a stack of 3.5" diskettes in. You could command it to load a diskette and eject a diskette, and I think h
by systems_glitch 4y ago
Yeah, it was a single-drive duplicator, and you loaded a stack of 3.5" diskettes in. You could command it to load a diskette and eject a diskette, and I think he'd said there was an "out of diskettes" indication.
The floppy drive itself was a regular old PC drive, 34-pin interface, just mounted in a machine on a long cable vs. inside the PC case.
Bigger, fancier duplicators have multiple drives and write in parallel, but due to the cheaper configuration of this single-drive duplicator, it was possible to use it like a tape library. Mostly this was for fun, I'm sure he had tape drives on which to save his backups!