19 Mar
2006
19 Mar
'06
8:08 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
For me, a portable machine means I don't have to port around diskettes
with me, so the hardcard pretty much seals the deal. The only way I
could get a hard drive in there without compromising slot 2 or the
original 2 drives is go with the CF->CF<>IDE->8-bit IDE adapter,
something I haven't tried yet on *any* of my machines.
Ah... Actually, I think the keyboard was supposed to
be user-removable.
You could unclip it when using the machine so you could put it in a
convenient location.
And looking at the machine from an angle LESS than 45 degrees also helps
(smacks forehead yet again).
Looks like my
last remaining Plus Hardcard 20 is going to find a home
(hope it still works). Or, I could try to find an IDE adapter and then
a CF-to-IDE adapter on top of that...
I feel iike the proverbial donkey who starves between 2 bales of straw. I
can't decide what to put in slot 2 of my 5155. Candidates are the
expansion unit interface (which would give me a lot more slots, but ruin
the portability), a data acquistion card, a GPIB card, or a Transputer
host interface... All would be rather nice in a portable machine. What I forgot to mention last night tis that while the
modification is
easy, geting the motherboard out is not. Obviously you have to remvoe all
the expansion cards, unplug the power cables and the keyboard DIN plug at
the back. And then you have to remove the floppy drives (they come out
backwards IIRC). since you get to one of the fixing screws _though_ the
floppy drive aperture. The board then slides out towards the right hand
side of the machine.
I can look up the exact procedure if you have problems.
I'll keep that in mind, thanks. This particular model, even without
opening it up, counts to 640 on power-up so I'll have a surprise when I
open it up.
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