Only ibm pc's have particular floppy drive?

[smalltux]

Only ibm pc's have particular floppy drive?
with older olivetti,i have replace easy the broken floppy drive...the standard drives is actually in sale.
Packard bell 286/386 have standard floppy drive?

[Mad-Mike]

Only ibm pc's have particular floppy drive?
with older olivetti,i have replace easy the broken floppy drive...the standard drives is actually in sale.
Packard bell 286/386 have standard floppy drive?

There are typically 4 floppy drives used with IBM Compatible computers, which includes the Olivetti and Packard Bell machines.

- 1.44MB 3.5" - The most common, still in light use today
- 1.2MB 5.25" - The Second Most Common, used till the Pentium came out (for the most part)
- 720K 3.5" - These were mostly used on IBM XT (8088) and IBM AT (286) class computers, though they can be used on an original PC or a modern machine. Some early (pre 1989ish) 386 machines had them too.
- 360K 5.25" - The diskette drive that IBM PC XTs and most IBM PC 5150s can handle naitively without any special hardware or special command-line/config.sys tweaks. These come in two variants, half height, and full height (like 2 half height drives stacked).

Also, the IBM PC and I think the IBM XT came with 2 other full size 5.25" drive capacities......

160K - The original 64K IBM PC Released in 1981
320K - Used on PC's, and some XT machines till around 1983-1984ish

However, some computers had different capacities and non-standard drives.

The Tandy TRS-80 2000 has 720K 5.25" floppy drives, 2 of them. Must be hard to find disks for one of those.

The Tandy 1000 series used special floppy drives that got power from the floppy drive control cable, therefore, they are incompatible with any other computers than the Tandy 1000 series.

IBM PS/2's have non-standard drives for the most part. Their drives usually are the same case as the Tandy, except probaby a different pinout.