On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Peter Seebach wrote:

> Are these plain old PC 1.44 floppies, or are they actually different
> hardware?  I'm wondering if I should keep them separate, or sort them
> in with all the other stuff...

Theoretically, the floppy drive in the 3/80 (and SPARCstations) is an NEC
765 standard floppy drive, that is to say, standard PC/AT, with extra
header pins for ejecting the floppy.  You could try to plug in a PC/AT
drive but you will come up a few pins short (and possibly wrong.)  If
you're the cautious type, I'd check the pinouts before preceding.

(If anyone is truly interested in researching the pins, I have the
datasheet for the Intel floppy chip used in the 3/80.)

-J