jose@utcs.UUCP (Jose Antonio Dias) (03/17/85)
(It has come to my attention that this line is NOT(?) nescessary!)
Hi ho!
I finally decided to make the device described on page 34 of February's TPUG
magazine. In that article a little add-on device attempts to make the 4040
a little more "humane." This device attempts to detect when the power is
either going up or coming down. In other words: if the power supply is not
appropriate then don't let any charge go to the read/write heads. Fine! This
is something I would like to have as an integral part of my drive, since I
allready have a green led telling me that the power is on...
It all sounded like a great idea, so I bought the parts and started putting the
thing together. But then I came upon a little snag: the article uses
18 and 9 volts to detted the power change. My problem is that I do not know
which pins provide these voltages. My best guess would indicate that they
are available from the power transformer on one of the pins. My question is
simple: Which pins supply the above voltages? I would have tryied to get the
info from TPUG's own BBS, but they've been having a little problem...
Have you heard the latest? About 2 weeks ago someone, or someones, broke into
TPUG's office at Avenue road and stole all their computer equipment. This
poses a great problem, aside from not having the BBS going. What to do about
the user's list? The list of users was kept on one, or more, hard-disk but now
this list is in the possession of someone else. What can we do...
Jose A. Dias University of Toronto Computing Services
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Jose A. Dias University of Toronto Computing Services
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The above ascii characters are not, have not ever been, or will ever
be, the opinion of anybody, being, or super-intelligent shade of the
colour blue. They were just a fluke. They were put together by
randomnly selecting phrases from Vogon poetry...
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(As the crow flies... :-)