26 Jul
2012
26 Jul
'12
11:47 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, unfrotunately it was a typo. The Einstein controller (along with
most others of the time) could handle 4 (four) floppy drives.
The floppy controller could handle 5 drives (as
most contorllers could
befor the IBM 5150).
Is that a typo (and you meant 4)? A friend was trying to figure out how to rework the
drive select lines of
the TRS-80 to try to access 7 or 14 drives. Fortunately, he switched over
It should be psosible, IIRC on the TRS-80, each sleect line could be
independantly controlled in software, so you could use a binary encoding
scheme.
to 5160 and hard disks before he invested too much
time into that project.
I am not sure that was an improvement :-)
-tony