I'd love to know how this is done. :)
Which?
The 3.5 inch drive conversion. Using modern media on this machine would
simplify things enormously. However I don't have the facilities to burn
my own roms, so if it involves patching the bios rom (like it sounds like)
I'll stick with 5.25 I guess.
The 4/84s and 2Xs and 10s all had a 50 pin header that
lead to an adapter
board, which in turn led - by way of a 40 conductor ribbon - to the WD HD
controller.
Actually the stickers on the back read "Kaypro 4 '84" and it has half
height
drives. The drive connector feeds directly to the main board. to the rear
of that is what appears to be a connector that wasn't ever attached - there are
holes but no connector.
Well, if that is so, it should have a 50 pin header or the traces and
pads for it on the right hand edge of the motherboard just beyond the
floppy connection header.
That's right. It has the pads and traces for probably a 50 pin header just
behind the floppy connection header. Is this where I'd plug in the
hard disk controller if I had it? And I don't suppose anyone ever made
a SCSI host adapter for this thing? being able to use SCSI disks in it
like I do in nearly every other machine I own would be VERY handy. (yes,
I'm a SCSI bigot. I lothe IDE).
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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