Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hi All

I have been busy looking for usable replacement floppy drives for my
FZ-10M and FZ-20M.  I wanted to share the following information and
links that seem to dovetail into how you can, in fact, get a
replacement drive for a reasonable price:

 1) Info on setting the drives to 360 RPM instead of 300, and on cabling:
http://www.buchty.net/casio/fz1-diskdrive.html

 2) Further info on 300 vs. 360 rpm AND Disk Change vs. Disk Ready line:
http://nemesis.lonestar.org/computers/tandy/hardware/model16_6000/floppyfix.html

 3) Now for the good part.  Note that both pages have info on the
Newtronics/Mitsumi D359T3 drive.  There is a supplier of these drives
on eBay at the moment:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5160092611&fromMakeTrack=true

If you can live with a beige face plate on your black FZ and you can
use a soldering iron, then this may be an good opportunity to get a
drive or two for when disaster sets in.

Please Note:
 a) I have no connection to any of the sites or sellers mentioned
 b) I can not guarantee that this info is valid or that this will work.
 c) I have enough confidence in this that I am buying 2 of these
drives myself!

Larry T.