21 Dec
2012
21 Dec
'12
11:31 a.m.
> I'd like to build a little adapter board that
has all the line tweaks
> needed to use a 3.5" drive with 720k media in older CP/M machines. A
> few option jumpers and you wouldn't have to hack cables any longer. :)
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Well, the Samsungs do have READY available on pin 34
and can run in
1.6MB mode as a direct substitute for 8" drives (i.e., spindle speed is
360 RPM). If you wanted to do a paddle board to adapt the 34 pin header
to an edge connector,
Readily available, sometimes with a READY jumper back when 3.5 drives were
being retrofitted to machines with 5.25