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RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*
RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*

RAREST OF THE RARE * TEAC FD-55GS 751-U/GFR SCSI - 5 1/4 Floppy Drive *TESTED*

$ 237.6

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

EXTREMELY RARE TEAC FD-55GS 751-U / FD-55GFR 701-U WITH SCSI INTERFACE.  PULLED FROM A WORKING XEROX 4135.
This is working and can used as a functioning unit - but it can also be highly collectable.
These Teac SCSI floppy drives were used in mid-range computers and other system control units in the late 1970's through the 1980's.  Commercial systems, industrial systems, mid-range computers like Burroughs, Xerox, IBM, DEC, Data General, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard systems had at least one short lived unit that used this drive.  They used this type of floppy for cost savings, if they had systems that used a SCSI Hard Drive or any other SCSI device, then it was much easier and cheaper to also have a SCSI floppy drive too.
I used this unit in a Xerox 4135 for my old business.  It has been in storage, so I put together a 1980's era Frankenstein PC to test this drive.  See pics.  Tested out great - no problems.  I tested other makes and models of 5 1/4 floppy at the same time to also sell on eBay too.  I tested using the floppy interface since I do not have a Xerox 4135 laying around, but I did use an Adaptec SCSI card to test that it was getting a signal on the SCSI side too.  I called Xerox a few years ago and asked for a price on one of these and was told ,600!  Will ship USPS Priority Mail.
**NOTICE:  I am unable to ship 1 week of every month - there will be an eBay banner on this listing if I am unavailable and it will state my return date. Thank You. **
Notes:
1.2mb/360kb ONLY. This drive has two model numbers, one is for the base drive (FD-55
GFR
) and the other indicates the SCSI interface (FD-55
GS
).
Teac GS-type (SCSI)
This drive is a GF-type fitted with an interface converter that translates between the standard floppy interface and SCSI. It allows the drive to be one of up to seven connected to a narrow-SCSI bus.
Teac GF-type (2S DD/HD 80T)
As the G-type could only access HD 1.2MB media in a world where DD 360kB media was common, its functionality was combined with the F-type to produce the GF-type. This drive could switch between HD and DD media, run at 300 (DD) or 360 (HD) RPM, and extended the HD format from 77 tracks to the 1.2MB PC standard 80 tracks. It allowed all previous disk formats supported by the FD-55 series to be read by a single drive.
Teac R-update
The original series of drives were later updated by Teac to take advantage of developments in circuit design and to reduce power consumption, and they were re-released with an R suffix to indicate the revised design was in use.