22 Jan
2015
22 Jan
'15
6:09 p.m.
Yes, I think it will possibly work with my Commodore
1702, but I'm not
sure if I have a suitable spare connector in the junk pile at the moment -
plus it feels a bit weird using a Commodore display with an Atari :-)
If it works, you're lucky (and use it)! :D
Mostly
impossible to find the connectors alone.
Yeah, I figured it would be! If finding
the genuine cables turns into a
big deal, I suppose I could run some 13-way IDC cable out of the
system/drive/850 cases and use DA15 connectors (there's enough clearance
around the existing connectors to do so without harming anything), but it
would be nice to find at least one real cable first and verify that my
drives work. ;-) I like using real floppies for as long as I can,
though! One of the
1050 drives has some kind of speed-doubler widget fitted internally, so
although I heard that the drives can be slow, that one might not be too
bad.
Well, some people pay to suffer :oD Kidding aside, it is great to use
disks! But in Brazil, 5 1/4 disks are rare and expensive now. I still use
them, but only in my Apple II :)
And if someday you will to leave your 850 unit know a (too much) sunny
place called Brazil, let me know :D