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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