Hi George,
Yamaha offers the UD-FD01 floppy drive for the DKC850. This drive comes with a bracket and can be attached to the bottom of the DKC850, if you wish. There is another floppy drive, the Iomega #32633 floppy drive (about $30) available that works fine. No bracket is included with this drive. However, you only need the floppy to transfer the song files to the DKC850, so it doesn’t need to be a permanent installation.
Another option if you purchase a DKC850, is to ask your Yamaha dealer if you can borrow a UD-FD01 Yamaha floppy drive from the store. Then, spend an evening and transfer all of the files from your floppies to the internal memory of the DKC850.
Bill Brandom
Senior Technical Manager
Keyboard Division
Yamaha Corporation of America
Phone: 714-522-9417 FAX: 714-522-9301
From:
disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of George
Husson
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:28 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] DKC850 upgrade unit
I'm
curious about whether the lack of the floppy drive gives you any concern. I
have many of those and Yamaha still seems to be selling a lot of their stuff on
floppy. I know there is a floppy drive available to go with this unit but I am
also under the impression that you have to get that unit and cannot just use a
portable floppy drive. I have considering whether or not it would be worth it
for me to purchase it.
Thanks!
--George
From: whitestarline123
<whitestarline123@yahoo.com>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 11:07:20 AM
Subject: [disklavier] DKC850 upgrade unit
Hi Everybody, I have just recently purchased
the dkc 850 upgrade. I am happy to report that this unit is everything that I
had been expecting and more!! I have one problem with it. I cannot seem to get
it to play
files through the analogue midi inputs. I am using a laptop with Vista. It will
play the audio perfectly but the piano will not play along.
It is probably the operator!
I am wanting to purchase the squeezebox Duet system so that I can control all
of my media from the handheld unit. I am hoping there is a way to play the
disklavier files using this method. Any help would be appreciated.
In all other aspects I am very happy with the unit and highly reccomend it. The
supplied manual does not explain the use for the analogue midi inputs properly.
Thanks in advance
Wayne