25 Jul
2012
25 Jul
'12
7:40 p.m.
> 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.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Depending on the vintage of the TRS-80, that's not
as silly as it
sounds at first. Didn't most of the early 8" drives (e.g. SA-800)
have a configurable option for either radial or binary select?
Model 1, before doubler, nor even external data separator.
Shugart SA400 and MPI B-51