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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Looking for a Jasmine MegaDrive | Posted by: Dog Cow on 2010-02-22 10:28:52
I've got about 10 disks which go to the Jasmine MegaDrive which I can't read because the drive in question is presumed to be lost to the ages, though I still have the user manual with a Post-It note to the effect of "I have this in my basement."
Anyway, I'm really curious to find out what is on these disks, so I was wondering if anyone has such as device, and then we can work on things from there.
| Posted by: Dog Cow on 2010-02-28 17:41:16
Anyone? It would be a shame if we never found out what's on these disks.
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-03-01 01:25:03
So my curiosity got the better of me, and I went a'Googling to find out what the heck a "Jasmine MegaDrive" was. I was hoping to find out it was a reasonably common platform like the 100MB LS-120 floppies, or MO drives. The grand total of eight Google hits tells me otherwise.
http://www.emulatorarchive.com/Archives/Samplers/E3Overview/E3Upgrades/e3upgrades.html
Jasmine Mega Drive
E-mu Systems recommended this 5.25" 10 MB floppy drive for backing up EIII sound bank data in the summer of 1988. It was manufactured by Jasmine Technologies in the USA. A 4 MB bank loaded in 35 seconds, and the drive sold for $999. The floppy diskettes cost $36. This drive never made it as a popular format, but did anyone use this? InfoWorld 25 May 1987
Jasmine to ship 10MB SCSI Disk Drive in June
A removable-media, 10-megabyte SCSI disk drive ... the $999 units use 5-1/4-inch cartridges containing floppy media in a hard shell ... The drive fits underneath the Mac Plus and SE. The cartridges ... sell for $39.95 each. Sounds like not a lot of these were sold. Suggestions: ask on LEMswap, Emu Emulator forums/lists, etc, and stick it on ebay Saved Searches till one (hopefully) turns up.
| Posted by: Dog Cow on 2010-03-01 05:48:33
I'll admit, I didn't know what they were, either. When I got them last March, I was about to post a topic here asking "What are these?"
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