19 Feb
2007
19 Feb
'07
7:05 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
What I have are the docs for the MSC-9305 ST506-GPIB
interface
which used the Xebec module. At one point it looked like the
commands were compatible.
That board is fairly close to what i have. My board is
bigger and uses
dual row headers for the drive connections. it has no edge connectors at
all.
It looks like it's about 6 inches wide and about 9 or so inches long.
There are no edge connectors on it.
The DIP switch selects device address, drive type and format. There is a
button and LED for selftest, several
jumpers dispersed around the board. I think it uses an 8051 with the
UVEPROM window (but it may be an 8048) with external 2K or 4K UVEPROM. I
don't recall whether it had external RAM or not.
The board connected to the two 5Mb's can make them each look like four
HP 8-inch floppy's or one 4.8Mb disk.
The board connected to the 10Mb disk, in it's original Xebec enclosure,
can do the above plus handle a 10Mb disk but I don't think it can format
it properly.
I guess I'll have to take a few days off and dig into storage to see
exactly what I have and take some of them there geekpron pix...
--
jd
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