20 Mar
2000
20 Mar
'00
2:05 a.m.
In keeping with nerd tradition I've got the thing
all in pieces before even
powering it on for the first time -- boy they sure didn't skimp on screws!
But the 44-pin connector is right there as promised. I'm thinking of maybe
doing a tiny PCB rather than soldering 44 individual wires on, I wonder if
there's a +12V source in hear anywhere so that standard 40-pin IDE drives could
be used too and not just laptop drives? The case is *really* cramped though.
Probe around for the 12v, likely it can't push much power though.
I plan to build an external IDE as the PS for that it trivial and then I
can use a 3.5" <I don't have any 2.5" handy>. NOTE: all reports say
17mm
thick drives or thinner.
The alternate plan is a booter in flash and use that to get to a Parallel
port box (3.2gb 3.5" disk inside) I've done that using floppy on other
machines.
Allison