8 Jul
2009
8 Jul
'09
1:31 p.m.
On 8 Jul 2009 at 16:18, Dave McGuire wrote:
> I'd love to add a Winchester disk, but I
understand that the early
> PCs did not have a power supply capable of driving a Winchester.
> How can I tell which power supply I have? My Google-fu has failed me
> on this query. Unfortunately it's not sitting in front of me at the
> moment, so I can't read any part numbers off of it; I'll have a look
> later tonight, but I recall it being a 65W power supply.
Over on the Vintage Computer Forum, there's an 8-bit IDE adapter
project going. Stick an IDE-CF adapter on and you've got a very low
power "hard disk" that would certainly run with the original PSU.
--Chuck