First post, by Vipersan
So I have aquired on of these Flip Disks ..
Branded Toshiba it allows an ancient laptop to access an external drive of ..6.4gb via pcmcia
Sadly the case is covered in some sort of neoprene rubber which is decomposing ..and no amount of cleaning will stop it being tacky to touch ..
It is most unpleasant because it sticks to and leaves a sticky residue on your hands.
So I took it to pieces and hopefully can construct a new case/mount for it...unless someone knows how to clean and stabilise this rubberised case..
Anyhow ..here are some pics of this interesting legacy device ..and I think is going to be very useful as it takes standard 44pin laptop ide drives..
At least that is what is currently fitted.
The drive is good..and tests ok.
Interestingly you can externally power the unit...and it has what looks like an LPT port at one end.
rgds
VS