4 Oct
2008
4 Oct
'08
11:17 p.m.
Hi
This would be a great board to connect a
MFM hard drive to a project computer. It wouldn't take
much to connect to most any computer, even an old S100.
These used a sector buffer so there is no issue with a slow bus.
Most all the implementations of the WD1001 used that same
instructions. It would be truely easy to get this to work for
most anything.
I put a different version of a WD1001 on my Olivetti M20.
It was a little easier than most because it already had the software
driver for it but I did have to write my own low level format.
This board is much easier to use than floppy boards because
it buffers the data and doesn't require faster bus responses.
Dwight
From: rtellason at verizon.net> > On Saturday 04
October 2008 13:08, Chuck Guzis wrote:> > On 4 Oct 2008 at 9:45, Al Kossow
wrote:> > > There were different 'dash' configurations for the WD1001,
according> > > to the WD catalog. The ones listed use ribbon cable
connectors.> >> > There were *many* OEM specials of the WD1001. I've got
one on my> > Durango F85 here using a proprietary bus.> > Well, I posted the
pics hoping that somebody might have a use for the thing, > rather than I just end up
scrapping it for the chips.> > Anybody wanna take it off my hands? Let me know. Not
that it takes up all > _that_ much room, but...> > -- > Member of the
toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and> ablest -- form of life in this
section of space, a critter that can> be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A.
Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"> -> Information is more dangerous than
cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James > M Dakin
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