[sci.electronics] Disk Drive Box

clayj@microsoft.UUCP (Clay Jackson) (11/07/89)

I've got an "interesting" dilemma.  I need to move a 5 1/4" floppy drive 
OUT of my system box and into an external unit.  So, I need a box with
a power supply and a set of adaptor cables of some sort.  The controller
I propose to use is an IRWIN 4100MC (as in MicroChannel).  It has a 
50 pin connector on the backplate, and their documentation claims that it
will drive an external floppy.

The floppy is a 5 1/4" half height 1.2 Mb drive.  The machine it's coming 
out of is a Tandy 5000MC, which is, for all intents and purposes (except
some physical size problems) a PS/2 Model 80 clone.

Thanks!

Clay Jackson,
Microsoft

lampi@pnet02.gryphon.com (Michael Lampi) (11/08/89)

A pretty good distributor of 5-1/4" boxes is WETEX, 1122 W. Washington Blvd.,
#D, Montebello, CA 90640, 1-800-798-7041, fax (213) 728-3203. You can also try
IB Computers, (503) 297-8425, 9244 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy., Beaverton, OR
97005. There are lots of dealers out there--just check your Computer Shopper!

Michael Lampi
MDL Corporation

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