tandon 848-2 8" floppy drive

It's really quite simple. I looked at mine (not an easy trick, considering where they were) and saw that they were plugged into the same oiwer supply as my QUME or Shugart or whatever they were had been. They appear to have the same power huukups as the older drives, except that there's no AC power. Now, I can't swear to that, since it was dark in there, but I surely didn't see an AC cable to the slimline drives. I don't know whether this particular box has -5 or -12 to the drives, but I believe it's -5. That works in more cases than the -12, since only SOME drives have the onboard regulator for the negative supply. As usual, you can be pretty safe assuming the obvious. I doubt the manufacturers would have used the same supply connector if they hadn't intended one to use the same supply. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Saturday, June 12, 1999 3:48 PM Subject: Re: tandon 848-2 8" floppy drive