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Floppy Drives with Dual Index and WP Sensors

bolex

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I've been looking to add a few floppy drives to the collection and I'm specifically looking for single sided Shugart interface style drives that had dual index and write protect sensors so that the flip side of the disk could also be used. The two drives that I know did this are the Siemens FD-100-5 (this was an option at purchase so not all can do this). Also the Pertec FD200 (Pictured).

Are there any other drives that had this feature? Does anyone know of any SS 80 Track drives that also had dual Index and WP sensors?



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Siemens purchased the Wangco drive line so some Wangco drives should do this but finding anything about Wangco is a challenge.
 
I have a Wangco floppy brochure scanned on bitsavers. The 5.25" drive is the Model 82.
Found a picture of one on line. It looks like a couple of companies used them.
 

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The 5.25" drive is the Model 82.
Found a picture of one on line. It looks like a couple of companies used them.
I'll add Wangco to the list. Thanks! It looks like the Wangco 82 and Siemens FDD 100-5 are the same drive.
 
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