BASF 6106 40 track single-sided floppy drive
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2First test of this BASF floppy drive from the early 1980s to see if it’ll work after all this time or require some extra attention. This drive has a single head which you can see underneath the drive - to use both sides of a disc I'd need to either punch a hole on the disc or bypass the write-enable detection on the drive.
The drive came in a home-made case with an AC-to-DC power supply. I'm repainting the case and replacing the power supply with a modern switching version - thought that would be much easier than replacing the busted film capacitors.
Testing it by formatting a floppy disc on a BBC Model B microcomputer with Intel 8271 interface.
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