Hi all --
Recently picked up a TRS-80 "Eight Meg Disk System" (model 26-4151) and
the associated interface board, with the intent of hooking this up to my
TRS-80 Model 16.
On further investigation, it appears that the 26-4151 is a Secondary
drive, which makes me curious as to whether this effort is going to be
ultimately fruitless. So, without further ado, here's the questions I have:
1. Is it possible to get this secondary drive working as a primary, or
am I up a creek without having a primary drive (or extra magic hardware
in the drive I have.)
2. If I can work around #1, I need to know the pinouts of the drive and
the controller board since I do not have a cable to connect the two.
The controller has a 50-pin edge connector and the drive has three
connectors -- 2 50-pin (labeled "Control") and one 20-pin (labeled
"Data").
a. And as a follow on to #2, where would you suggest getting the
parts and tools necessary to build the aforementioned cable? I've never
constructed such a cable, and I'll have need to do so again in the
future (need to assemble some long-ish ESDI cables for my PDP 11/73...)
Thanks for any suggestions,
Josh