Ditto!

[macgeek417]

I found a Ditto drive at goodwill for 8 bucks. In box. Now all I need are some tapes!

 

[Gil]

Man does that bring back memories. I have a PC parallel Ditto drive. Back in the 90's, my dad got one from AT&T (he worked there). They gave them to everyone. Still have it, it's got 2 or 3 tapes as well.

 

[macgeek417]

Mine's a PC paralell one too. a Ditto Easy 3200 PC Paralall Drive, to be exact.

 

[JRL]

I actually received an internal Ditto Easy800 drive for free a while back. I can't use it ATM, but I'd love to someday.

 

[II2II]

For some reason, the subject line made me think of Ditto copiers. This is, after all, a vintage forum.

Dittos were a type of copier where you typed (and you could probably write) onto special forms, wrapped that form around a drum, then turned a crank that transfered the image from the special form onto paper. Anyways, I had one of those as a child. Though I never did get it working, probably because my parents didn't want me to mess around with copious amounts of ink.

 

[Unknown_K]

I have a ditto 3200 which I purchased new back in the 1990's, it has the fast ISA floppy controller (ditto dash card). I have a couple 800's that work off the floppy controller cards (has a special cable that splices into the line. I have some sony proprietary 2GB external parallel drive that uses a ditto type tape but its a special 2GB variety (purchased to unarchive some old tapes from a BBS). Still have some QIC drives in use also.

I tend to collect old tape and removable media drives (with media) when I can get them. You never know when you need to read some old abandoned media.

I have Zip 100

Bernouli 150

Syquest 44, 88(5.25")

Syquest 230 (3.5")

1.2GB MO 5.25"

230MB MO 3.5"

DAT DDS 1,2,3,4

LS Superdrive 120

QIC and Ditto drives

Irwin drive (I think in one of the PS/2's)

Various CDR, CDRW, DVDR, DVDRW

IBM 3363 WORM (200MB 5.25")

So if you have something oddball and want it gone let me know.

 

[Kyvinaria]

Some Ditto drives seem to be compatible with Travan tapes (ones not specifically marked for Ditto's), if you have some of them, they might be of use. Though Travan tapes and the requisite drives always seem to be apart from one another (you buy/find some tapes, and there's no drive, or you buy/find a drive, and there're no tapes...Catch-22 or what?)

 

[MacPlusOwner]

For some reason, the subject line made me think of Ditto copiers. This is, after all, a vintage forum.
Dittos were a type of copier where...turned a crank that transfered the image from the special form onto paper. Anyways, I had one of those as a child...my parents didn't want me to mess around with copious amounts of ink.

And just as well too! Those ditto machines ended up being banned in schools when it was found out that the chemicals used were carcinogenic. A higher than statistically normal number of teachers who used those on a daily basis ended up with cancer.

The copies did smell good though :beige:

 

[macgeek417]

Oh, and more yet: it was in-box, and in-factory shrinkwrap.