The GT drive is housed in a black metal case and the opening in the front for the floppy was covered by a flip-open smoked plexiglass door that makes the unit look completely sealed when closed.
Buttons beside the display allow the user to select among track number, most recent error code, and the type of formatting on the disk, single, enhanced (or dual), or double-density.
A fourth button enables write protection,[3] while a real-panel switch lets the user to select the default format.
[5] A later upgrade from Indus, the RAMCharger, added 64 kB of random-access memory (RAM) and a PAL chip that allowed the drive to run CP/M software.
One complaint was that the Synchromesh software took a long time to load, so modified boot disks appeared to improve this.