27 Aug
2002
27 Aug
'02
6:44 a.m.
Rumor has it that Lawrence Walker may have mentioned these words:
[snip]
The 502 has a dummy faceplate for a second floppy and
2 data 34pin
connectors and 2 standard 3 1/2 floppy plug types as you say and a
whopping big PSU that must support 2 drives. There's one single square 2pin
plug which doesn't have any visible connector on either drive.
The only mod needed would be to replace the small power with a large type.
The PSU does support 2 drives, but when it does so, it gets a little
warm... that's what the 2-pin plug is for - Fan power. If you're using
newer drives that take less power (especially if it's 3.5" and you have
more room for convective cooling) it's not necessary (or at least *as*
necessary, if you power the machine for a short amount of time) but if you
plan on using that older TEAC, you'll want to fit in a compatible-sized
fan. The fan was included in the CoCo "Drive 1" kits...
Dunno if a standard PC case fan is the right size - my FD502 is still
packed away for now... (sniff) but if that's too big, a larger pentium-like
CPU fan should be just the ticket. If it's not *ezactly* the right size,
I'm sure suitable boltholes could be fashioned... ;-)
That's great. When you don't have a HD, 2
floppies sure makes things
easier. I recall with no pleasure spending hours doing the disk-change
mambo copying programs off magazine disks on my Atari ST.
Yea, when I upgraded my CoCo3 to 512K, it wasn't so bad 'cause I fashioned
a 200K RAMdisk; which made copying stuff a wee bit easier; but the original
IBM PCs were tough, they'd only copy 3-4 tracks each spin... :-(
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????