----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Dersch" <derschjo at
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Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:40 PM
Subject: Looking for: Dauphin DTR-1 Floppy
A number of DTR-1s have been showing up on eBay
recently (cheap) so I
decided to snag one. (I really wanted one when they were new but my
salary as a 15 year old prevented such a thing from happening...)
As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP
Kittyhawk drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). Quite a marvel of engineering
in 1993...
Anyway, the specimen I obtained works fine (need to rebuild the
battery) but lacks the external floppy drive. So my only real
option for getting software on the machine is over the serial port,
which is a a bit annoying (and also precludes installing a new OS on
it..)
Anyone have any spares?
Thanks,
Josh
No floppy drive here (I have a couple units with bad keyboards), but
there is a site that shows the pinout for the port.
Yeah, I found that -- but I have no idea what kind of connector the
Dauphin uses for the floppy port, it's not something I've seen before
and I don't know its "name" so it's difficult to search for :). Anyone
know? (I can supply pictures if needed...)
Josh