WTB: 8" floppy

It's easy to fool oneself into believing the DAVONG controller should have either the WD-1000 (a 50-pin interface) or the SASI, but simple inspection indicates that DAVONG used signals on both even and odd numbered pins on their controller. I acquired mine in the hope that they'd stuck to the reference design that Western Digital put out with their WD1100 chipset, but they apparently didn't. I have a couple of the WD1100-based WD1000 controller boards in a version made by/for Televideo for their TS806 machines, of which I have a couple (not working at the moment, though they previously worked as spoolers in my earlier PC-system architecture) and was contemplating modifying the PLL and swapping the crystal, thereby making the board compatible with 8" HDD's. It just requires a crystal, a cap, an inductor, and a moderately complicated retuning of the varactor-based VCO on the board. The procedure is quite clearly outlined in one of the very early WD-1000 manuals I have. The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions ... That power supply and enclosure are somewhat odd. The box is completely sealed off at the front, as one might justify for a HDD, but since the thing has supplies capable of supporting it, I was once considering putting an Ampro Little board and a floppy in there with a HH HDD. The metal working discouraged me from it long enough to take it off the list of things to do. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 12:02 AM Subject: Re: WTB: 8" floppy together to