12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
8:43 p.m.
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, mc68010 wrote:
On 3/11/2013 11:37 AM, Enrico Lazzerini wrote:
> Hi, I received a Xerox 820-II mainboard. I've found that does not have a
> FDC
> on board and that the 37-pin connector used to connect the floppy disk it
> seems to have a bus and its own protocol to talk to an external FDC board
> outside. Is there anybody who knows more and is it there a way to try to
> connect and operate the drive with this mainboard?
>
Having cleaned the heads, about every other disk going
through a box of
8" 820 disk, sthere is nothing in the drive other than the drives and a
power supply. I am not sure if the 820-II is different but, I doubt it.
The cable just splits off to each drive. Everything is on the mainboard.
My 82O-II does indeed have its floppy controller on a daughterboard. I
suspect this is a different arrangement from the original 820 aka Ferguson
Bigboard.
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