[Coco] Temp drives

[David]

I have a mound of these style of cables (leftovers from my computer 
scavenging hobby)

If you can describe precisely what you need, I can check my pile and see 
how things go :)

Regards,
David

billg wrote:


>Oh, well, my mistake.  My cable only has ONE 'card-edged' connector, and the

>rest the 'pin' connectors.  So, basically, I DON'T have a cable after all.

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>I've made a few phone calls to the local 'repair shops' and no-body has the

>card-edged cables any more.  Too old.  Just like MFM drives I need for my HD

>setup are no longer available.

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>Oh, well.

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>>-----Original Message-----

>>From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 

>>[mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Robert Gault

>>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:08 AM

>>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

>>Subject: Re: [Coco] Temp drives

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>>Should work. The only problem may be drive selection. Modern 

>>PC drives don't work the same way that older drives did. Now 

>>there may not be a dip switch for selecting the number of the 

>>drive as there had been; you may have to use the cable/pins. 

>>You may even have to twist some of the cable strands.

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>>I have a PC drive for drives #1,3 which is working without any 

>>modification of the Coco drive cable. I would have trouble 

>>making the drive work for #0,2.

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>>billg wrote:

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>>>I have a couple of bare 1.2Mb PC drives, a 2 drive cable, 

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>>and a spare 

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>>>power supply.  If memory serves, I SHOULD be able to hook everything 

>>>up and make them work.

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>>>Right??

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>>>Anything I've forgotten??

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