14 May
2005
14 May
'05
11:01 p.m.
On Fri, 13 May 2005 09:29:23 -0700
Paxton Hoag <innfoclassics at gmail.com> wrote:
There was a business in Beaverton who sold a simple
board to run both
5 1/4" drives and 8 inch drives on the Xerox 820 at the same time.
Evergreen technology??? Closed about 1990. I seem to remember it
wasn't hard to build.
If anyone comes uiop with the info I would be intersted too as I still
have an 820.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
I'm fairly certain that my BigBoard (I believe it was a clone of the
Xerox 820, I know it's an exact workalike) has a 50 pin connector for
the diskette drive.
I haven't ever brought up this particular BigBoard, but I had another
just like it in the 80's, which I used with 8" DSDD (720K) diskettes.
As I've said before I have my BigBoard all squirreled away with complete
docs including schematics. I'm involved in a BUNCH of spring
housecleaning and hope to locate it in the near future.
-Scott
-Scott