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
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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
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Re: [disklavier] DKC850 upgrade unit
2010-06-10 by George F. Litterst
I have 2 USB floppy drives that I have owned for several years. Both work fine with the DKC-850. I know that there is no guarantee that any particular drive will work, but it is worth checking out any drive that you already have.
Regards,
PianoBench
On Jun 10, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Bill Brandom wrote: