12 May
2005
12 May
'05
11:03 a.m.
Hi,
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:57:13PM +0200, SP wrote:
Hello everybody.
I've obtained recently one Xerox 820 without the floppies unit box :-) In
these circumstances the system is lightly unuseful. Someone has one floppy
units box for this system available for free or trade ?
I'm relatively sure there is nothing significant in the floppies unit box
other than the disk drives and power supply. In the mid-80's I obtained an
820-II motherboard, and simply soldered "D" connector pins onto a floppy drive
ribon cable, to connect a pair of 8" floppies to the thing, making up
my first CP/M computer system. The 8" drives were cheap and common then,
but the ones in the Xerox box and the Xerox cable were not so common.
There is another question in addition... the floppies
connector has 37 pin.
I suppose it allows the Xerox to use 5.25 floppies. But in some place I've
read about 8" floppy units for the 820. What's about that ?
Both are possible. If you obtain and attach 8" drives, I can send you a
bootable floppy, once I get my system up and running again. If someone
provides more info about 5.25" drives, maybe I'll be able to get them
working on my 820-II. Better yet, maybe someone knows of more modern
storage alternatives that could be made to work with these.
Mark
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