28 Oct
2012
28 Oct
'12
3:06 p.m.
therefore whats needed is a piece of ribbon cable or mort modern 3.5 only floppy cable,
iow dual inline connectors at opposite ends, and a card edge in between?
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 1:10 PM PDT Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
mine is longer then any Ive seen on various
sites. Probably older. Need
docs and s/w, though what Ive downloaded may be appropriate. Anyone ever
use their (discrete logic) version with 8 inch drives?
I can tell you the contents of the docs that came with it!
1) connect in inline in the cable between the disk controller and the
drive. It originally came with with a short cable with a 34 pin card edge
and 34 pin dual-inline connector. You could reverse that cable to connect
to your FDC and either connector of the board. Then your existing drive
cable connects to the other connector.
"Do all connections and anstallation with the computer turned off!"
Run the supplied software.
Although much more verbose, that was all that the documentation said.
It didn't even give the meaning of the jumper or switch that some models
had, labelled "Compaq/Other"
At one time, they permitted me access to a "secret" page of instructions
on how to program it. Several parts of that page did not match what was
done in their supplied software (disassembly). I have since seen that
page show up in a few places on the web.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com