todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara) (08/26/88)
The latest Radio Shack flyer has a external 3.5" 720K disk drive selling
for $99.95 (regular price is $279.95) for their 1000 EX PC. Has anyone
tried to stick one of these Radio Shack drives on an old-style IBM PC
floppy disk drive controller? Those old controllers had a 34-pin D-shell
connector sticking out the back for external drives.
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Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Faculty Development Program
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INTERNET: todd@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU <==I'm told this rarely worksleonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (09/02/88)
In article <2299@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes: <The latest Radio Shack flyer has a external 3.5" 720K disk drive selling <for $99.95 (regular price is $279.95) for their 1000 EX PC. Has anyone <tried to stick one of these Radio Shack drives on an old-style IBM PC <floppy disk drive controller? Those old controllers had a 34-pin D-shell <connector sticking out the back for external drives. Sorry, but the pinouts don't match. The Tandy drive has a *30* pin card-edge connector and expects to get it's power over the cable. Inside is just a TEAC drive and an adapter board to interface between the 30-pin card edge and the drives power & controller connectors. Even so, it's still a cheap way to get a Teac drive. If you can get a circuit board made to replace the existing one, you could probably even run normal power and control cables to it. Me, I just tossed the case in the junk box... -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'. You know... I'd rather be a hacker."