[Coco] Tandy 1000sx

[Chester A Patterson]

When I worked at Howard Medical, one of the hard drive jobs we ofered and
did was add Hard Drives to Tandy 1000 PCs. We used the DTC5150 controller,
which was the same one we used for the Burke and Burke XT rig with Seagate
5-1/4" 1/2 height 20 and 40MB HD. On the 1000s we installed Seagate 3-1/2"
drives. I don't recall the Seagate model No's. They also were 20 and 40MB.

I found the DTC5150 manual (leaflet) in a box just the other day. If it may
perhaps be of help, let me know. Also, in the Burke and Burke XT manual
there are MANY tips on how to set up several old HD controllers to work with
several types of MFM and RLL drives. Jumper settings et al.

/Chester
-----Original Message-----
From: Sylvain Rousseau [mailto:srousseau at comlab.com]
Sent: Monday, 20 March, 2006 11:52
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Tandy 1000sx


You may have to change a dip switch (it's what I have to do to get my hard
drive works on my Tandy 1000 SX).

Look at this : http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html

This is the extract interesting for you:


The SX and TX will need DIP switch 2 on the motherboard turned off to allow
the hard drive to use IRQ 5 as is standard for XT-class systems.

Good luck.

Sylvain



At 03:06 2006-03-17, you wrote:

>If anybody still remembers the details about how to set up a Tandy
>1000SX with a hard drive, please email me.
>
>(My first PC was a 386.  I was a dedicated CoCo Nut when people were
>hooking MFM drives up to PCs.)
>
>Willard
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