31 Aug
1998
31 Aug
'98
5:21 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
The TRS-80 floppy drives are standard. Just about
anything, including PC
360K and 720K drives will work. The cable is straight-through and you set
the links to select which drive each one is (well, unless you use that
crazy Tandy cable with the pins removed...
Tony, setting the drive addresses by pulling pins from the cable
might be the smartest thing Tandy ever did from the point of view
of somebody who did tech support for them for half a decade. If
there'd been some way to put the termination resistor in the cable
it would have been even better. Remember, the TRS-80 later called
the Model One really _was_ the first computer marketed to the
ignorant masses, long before "the rest of us" became a slogan.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright