14 Oct
2006
14 Oct
'06
4:05 p.m.
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Al Hartman wrote:
Sounds like you have the Floppy Cable backwards.
That is certainly the first reaction to consider that.
Try plugging it in the other way around.
You have Pin 1 and pin 40 flipped. A constant light and spinning motor is the usual
symptom of that.
34, not 40.
The OP did say that he checked that.
Next step might even be as extreme as to make sure that pin 1 position on
the board is not mismarked! Yes, that has happened.
Another way to get data off that machine is to use
LapLink V and a Serial LapLink Cable. There were several work-alikes to LapLink like
FastMove and others.
Is the Tandy 2000 compatible enough for that end of the laplink software
to work?