Keep an eye out for internal floppy drives made before 2005ish.I just have one 3.5" 1400k floppy with the hole covered and I format the disk in the sy99. Any files added to the disk from the SY99 I save on the PC. They will be T01 or M01 etc (whatever the slot is etc) They load easily into the SY99. I have 100s of disks that work. Some are 720 and not 1400. The PC with the floppy drive is not operating at the moment as my SY99 has been needing repairs for many years. So I bought a second SY99 sold from Japan was supposed to be in Excellent condition. It arrived as junk and the seller got a guy in Gosford to fix what I thought would be perfect and I got a USB drive installed in place of the floppy. But after a week it went into mothballs and is still there. It is hard to deal with someone who doesn't do the right thing in the first place and you have to go to them again. Gets very expensive. Recently I found a new repairer and I am getting the first SY99 fixed. It has the floppy drive and was working perfectly. Next I will have to get the old PC with the floppy working again as I prefer the floppies than a mind numbing USB drive.
David
and when your restoring the SY99 keep an eye out for floppy drive adapters on ebay so you use PC floppy drive
in the SY99 instead of the OEM drive. You'll never have to change belts. floppy adaptors availability is
sporadic. it will need some minor mods to the floppy drive cradle to allow for the adaptor.
I haven't seen inside an sy99 before, I believe they might be the same type of cable as the SY77
so you may be able to search for both types of adaptors. (An owner of an SY99 can firm?)
be wary of the postage though, some of the sellers are charging obscene postage.
I have kept old PC's running for the same reason, even a win98 pc
they're not thrown out, they're repurposed
Statistics: Posted by Rara — Sun Jul 28, 2024 4:18 pm