14 Feb
1998
14 Feb
'98
10:32 a.m.
I just picked up two of these at a thrift shop, 2 floppies, cassette jack,
no hd. On the mounting plate of the floppy card is a female 37 contact 'D'
connector. Can any one tell me what this was for?
Regards
Charlie Fox
14 Feb
14 Feb
10:43 a.m.
On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Charles E. Fox wrote:
I just picked up two of these at a thrift shop, 2 floppies, cassette jack,
no hd. On the mounting plate of the floppy card is a female 37 contact 'D'
connector. Can any one tell me what this was for?
The connector was for an optional external floppy drive, but I don't
recall ever seeing anybody using one.
-- Doug
11:03 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Charles E. Fox once stated:
I just picked up two of these at a thrift shop, 2 floppies, cassette jack,
no hd. On the mounting plate of the floppy card is a female 37 contact 'D'
connector. Can any one tell me what this was for?
An external floppy drive. I don't know what the pinouts are though.
-spc (Has external floppy drive for his Data General/One)
12:58 p.m.
At 05:03 PM 2/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Charles E. Fox once
stated:
I have the pinouts if anyone needs them. I built a cable to connect my
NEC lap top via that port.
Joe
I just picked up two of these at a thrift shop, 2 floppies, cassette jack,
no hd. On the mounting plate of the floppy card is a female 37 contact 'D'
connector. Can any one tell me what this was for?
An external floppy drive. I don't know what the pinouts are though.
-spc (Has external floppy drive for his Data General/One)
12:10 p.m.
On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Charles E. Fox wrote:
I just picked up two of these at a thrift shop, 2
floppies, cassette jack,
no hd. On the mounting plate of the floppy card is a female 37 contact 'D'
connector. Can any one tell me what this was for?
This is the original IBM PC. The connector is for an external floppy
drive, and I believe other types of drives were designed to hook into it
as well such as tape drives.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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12:18 p.m.
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4:53 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I have a PC/XT on my desk here with 2 360K drives internally. It's
sitting on another box that contains the hard disks and also a pair of
720K 3.5" drives which are connected to this socket. The cable is quite
easy to make. You take a standard PC floppy cable (with the twist) and
cut off the connector that goes to the controller.
How are the hard drives controlled and how is that passed to the bus?
-Mike
I only ask because I have these cards but I've had to use scsi to add
external HDs.
15 Feb
15 Feb
10:14 a.m.
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14 Feb
14 Feb
12:57 p.m.
It's for connecting external floppy drives.
At 04:32 PM 2/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
I just picked up two of these at a thrift shop, 2 floppies, cassette jack,
no hd. On the mounting plate of the floppy card is a female 37 contact 'D'
connector. Can any one tell me what this was for?
Regards
Charlie Fox
3:03 p.m.
On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 16:32:31 -0500, you said:
I just picked up two of these at a thrift shop, 2
floppies, cassette jack,
no hd. On the mounting plate of the floppy card is a female 37 contact 'D'
connector. Can any one tell me what this was for?
For an external drive. The one I have in the garage is IBM# 4869
(360KB). I've seen a 720KB 3.5" version but don't know its' #.
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