Wanted: WD1002-HDD docs or Teac SD-520U help

On Saturday 23 April 2011 10:34:55 pm Fred Cisin wrote: Hehe.... My first HD, which I still have upstairs, mounted in the box I was using it in. I have an Osborne Executive, and acquired a box to support a hard drive (a pretty unusual feature in those days?). It originally had a Tulin drive in it that had really *bad* bearing noise, you didn't want to be in the same room with it. Inside the box is, I think, a WD-1000 board and a power supply. Originally a linear supply, but I later mounted a switcher in there, probably something similar to what I was sticking in Kaypros in those days to replace flaky ones. And when I substituted the ST-225 for the original 34MB Tulin drive, I was actually able to somehow or other hack things to make it work. Mostly. The only problem was write precomp -- the original drive didn't seem to call for it while the 225 did, and that meant that the last 3MB or so of the drive wasn't usable. The name on the box is "Design One" -- anybody ever run across this outfit? I'd *really* love to find source code for that software if it's out there anywhere... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin