30 Dec
2010
30 Dec
'10
1:45 p.m.
On 12/30/10 12:13 PM, "Mr Ian Primus" <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
Yeah... I've been steadily working towards getting a working TRS-80 Xenix
machine. At the moment, I have enough parts (I believe) to make a working
Model II, and a line on the 68000 board. Unfortunately, the difficult part to
find is a hard disk. I have the Model II host adapter for the early TRS-80
Eight Meg drive (which is, of course, completely incompatible with anything
else), but no drive. I can't even cobble it to a regular MFM drive, since the
actual disk controller is in the drive cabinet (I have only the host adapter).
Unfortunately, you can't really run Xenix without a hard drive.
-Ian
IIRC, the 8MB disk unit used a SA 1000 series 8" hard drive, they had a high
failure rate :( I know that while I had my 16 and 6000 running I had my 8
meg replaced 4 times under warranty. The last time it blew while still under
warranty they replaced the controller and drive unit with a 15 meg 5 1/4"
unit.