25 Jul
2012
25 Jul
'12
1:59 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
The floppy controller could handle 5 drives (as most
contorllers could
befor the IBM 5150).
Is that a typo (and you meant 4)?
(I'm starting to learn to try to differentiate typos from arguable
points, and learning that many things are possible that I've never heard
about before!))
A friend was trying to figure out how to rework the drive select lines of
the TRS-80 to try to access 7 or 14 drives. Fortunately, he switched over
to 5160 and hard disks before he invested too much time into that project.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com