13 Sep
1999
13 Sep
'99
11:10 a.m.
At 02:25 PM 9/13/99 -0700, Jim wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Joe wrote:
The drives in this one have a separate power connector. It's a four
conductor Molex connector exactly like the one used on the IBM PCs. That's
a good sign I guess but it sounds like I can't rob a drive out of one of my
OCC-1s.
Joe
At 12:06 PM 9/13/99 -0400, Jake wrote:
Well... not having had the need to pull apart any of the 'Execs' in my
collection (so far), I can only offer an observation from the earlier
Osborne machines.
The drives are mainly different in that the drive power is provided on the
same cable as the control and data signals, rather than on a seperate
cable like 'most' drives.
swap the drives into another machine and see if they'll read the messydos
disks... unless the drives are weird proprietary..
I've been told that they're different from standard drives. But I'm not
sure of that. I'm hoping that someone can tell me for sure. One problem is
that they're single sided drives so I need to find a machine that supports
SS drives. I know a PC will read and write SS disks but all the current
ones do expect the drive to be double sided.