crossings wrote:i've replaced the disk drive in an s900 with a TEAC floppy drive that i got on ebay for cheap... i think i posted the info in that old akai S-series thread... i can't remember right now... but if your floppy drive ever fails, you can still just get any floppy drive with jumpers on the back to replace it... not that big of a deal... not to mention that now you can get those virtual drives that can use USB sticks or whatever to store data as those all have jumpers on them as well...
you know, I was thinking about the floppy emulator some day .. the 900 has a bigger floppy slot too so you can maybe fit it in without needing to cut the case .. or so it looks.
Hey, have you ever tried the bootable OS4.0 disk for the s900? I haven't because I dont have a computer that can work with DD disks at the moment, though I am sort of interested in what it can do (I believe you need a certain OS on the 900 that allows for booting off the floppy.. I forget the details now that it has been a while)