11 Sep
2012
11 Sep
'12
9:06 p.m.
I like the odd angle of the chip peeking thru the hole at the bottom of
the photo which is on the floppy drive.
And as far as power, I see that it may have a standard looking 34 pin
connector present in the form of a second rank of connector pins which
appears to be J5 after the 50 for the scsi connector. Then above it is a
20 pin connector array which is labeled J7 I'd suspect pretty standard
pins on the J5, and power, etc. on the J7 20 pin connector, but who knows.
It is interesting. Probably saved design cost for integrating a floppy
controller and drivers into a workstation as someone else said, but you
have to wonder how efficient it was as far as SCSI with the bus
handling,etc. And if one needed to do any of the usual stunts accessing
the drive in odd ways other than sectors, life could get really complicated.
jim
On 9/11/2012 12:18 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
ftp.rodents-montreal.org:/mouse/misc/scsi-floppy.jpg
is a photo I just
now took of it;