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Disciple for sale

ProteusProteus
edited October 2012 in Sales
Hi all, im selling my trusty Disciple interface:sad:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/230854724873?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649#ht_500wt_1288
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  • MaccMacc
    edited September 2012
    ?135? bit too rich for my blood sorry!
  • SaltorSaltor
    edited September 2012
    Macc wrote: »
    ?135? bit too rich for my blood sorry!
    Definitively too much!
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  • ProteusProteus
    edited September 2012
    Well, i don?t think it is to much. I need the cash, if not i would not sell it.:mad:
  • WookieeWookiee
    edited September 2012
    I was hoping the New Baptist Church of Wookiee was going to pick up a new minion on the cheap there..... :(
  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited September 2012
    Macc wrote: »
    ?135? bit too rich for my blood sorry!

    that's just the starting price!

    thing is how rare are they? don't see 'em on the 'bay much and I haven't seen one since 'back in the day' so they probably are pretty rare could go for a good price for him

    just read up on the spec (never bothered before), nice peice of kit
  • ProteusProteus
    edited October 2012
    Well i removed the disciple from sale because i could not bare to part with it, but now i will let him go...:-(

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/230864473645?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

    Farewell.
  • djgarfdjgarf
    edited October 2012
    its not that rare lol
    ?136 for a starting price is madness
    plus you gotta pay the shipping on top and it dont even come with a floppy drive
  • ProteusProteus
    edited October 2012
    Hi djgarf, you can use almost any floppy drive with it. And yes, it is quite rare because who has one will not sell it.
  • ProteusProteus
    edited October 2012
    Hi Crisis, i use my disciple with a normal modern pc disc drive and a crossed cable and don?t even need to do the hole cover trick on the disket.
    The buttons are doing great, thanks ( would mention if not ).
    I can check the ROM version.
    I am selling because i need money, if i didn?t i would keep it for sure.
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  • bversteebverstee
    edited October 2012
    Crisis wrote: »
    thats unless its NOT a 1.44 ....
    DISCiPLE can cope with any 5" but only with 3.5" with a 720 (800)Kb format.
    That is a HARDWARE difference so a 1.44 will NEVER be used on a DISCiPLE what ever ROM version you put in it.
    you will have to plug the hole in yr 1.44 disc, a hardware trick , to fool the DISCiPLE ....

    "That is a HARDWARE difference so a 1.44 will NEVER be used" is absolutely not true.

    You can use a 3.5" HD (1.44MB) drive without any problem as long as you use DD floppies or HD floppies with the 'HD'-hole covered.
    Covering the 'HD'-hole is not to fool the Disciple, but to let the drive perform as DD drive.
    This works fine!! I sell the dual drive sets, which contain HD drives.
    These work perfectly with every DD disk interface.

    When the hole is not covered, the drive will behave as HD drive.
    It will still set 80 steps at max, but will write data to the track a lot faster, allthough the Disciple does not feed the data at the same speed.
    This will cause read errors.

    There is even no problem with 'smaller head width' as there were in the past when a floppy was read that was written with an 80-track drive in 40-track mode (step doubling):
    When a disk that was written with an 80-track drive in 40-track mode, it gave problems when read with a real 40-track drive.

    3.5" HD drives are 100% compatible with DD drives!
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