[Techtoolslist] FYI: 9100A/FT - writes HD floppies

[John Robertson]

Not exactly sure what I have! It certainly has a 68030 cpu and eight RAM slots (max 4mb) but the screen surround says 9100A, and nowhere on the unit does it say anything else...

I'm suspecting it was an engineering sample machine...

John :-#)#

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On 2012-11-13, at 17:40, Martin White <martin at guddler.co.uk> wrote:


> That’s the problem - I’m confused as to what you mean by 9100A/FT. Is it an A, or an FT? I wasn’t aware there was a model that is both at the same time.

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> This really is off the top of my head, and from personal experience but actually not masses:

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> - Faster CPU (actually makes a huge difference)

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> - Larger HDD - I think they may have standardised on SCSI by the FT too rather than MFM?

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> - HD Floppy drive

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> And now it seems, maybe 6.1 was an FT feature even though we’re findibg that it does indeed work on the A?

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> There may be more but I’ve not used it in a while. It’s all listed somewhere in one of the documents - all of which are in the Flippers archives, (or possibly arcarc), as I’ve never had any printed materials that haven’t already been available on Flippers for download. I’m sure there’s a manual or maybe a sales leaflet that specifically goes into the new features of the “new” FT model.

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> Martin.

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> From: John Robertson

> Sent: ‎14‎ ‎November‎ ‎2012 ‎01‎:‎31

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> Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] FYI: 9100A/FT - writes HD floppies

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> Martin White wrote:

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>> John,

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>> Are you specifically talking about the 9100A or 9100FT here?

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>> One of the upgrades of the 9100FT was the inclusion of the HD floppy drive so obviously we know it’s the case that the FT can read / write them...

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> This is the 9100A/FT that I am using to test these drives. (68030 CPU).

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> What other upgrades were added to the FT series?

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> I was also wondering if the standard 9100A has the ability to R/W HD 

> floppies if running 6.1? Haven't tested that...

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> John :-#)#

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>> From: John Robertson

>> Sent: ‎13‎ ‎November‎ ‎2012 ‎18‎:‎04

>> To: techtoolslist at flippers.com

>> Subject: [Techtoolslist] FYI: 9100A/FT - writes HD floppies

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>> Was playing with it yesterday, trying to figure out how to copy entire 

>> directories in one swoop and realized that it can indeed handle HD 

>> floppies (the ones with the extra hole on the left).

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>> I wish I could find a copy of the service manual!

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>> John :-#)#

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