30 Oct
2012
30 Oct
'12
2:39 p.m.
[Signal direction link/switch]
That answers BOTH what the inadequately
labelled/documented switch was
for, AND whether it could be installed to the middle of an unbroken floppy
cable (NO.)
It didn't take me long to figure it out...
Yes, the links on PC parts are often ridiculously poorly dcoumented. At
about the same time I installed Microsoft bus mouse card for another
chap. The docuemtneation that came with that told me to fti a particualr
link if I was installign it in slot 8 of an XT. I now know what it does
(connexts the siangle to 'that pin' (B8?) to eneable the dsata buffers on
a read). but back then I;'d not read an XT Techref. And of coruse I was
instialling it in an XT _clone_....
-tony