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- From: lowen@lorc.eskimo.com (Lamar Owen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: need TRS80 Model 4P stuff
- Message-ID: <SlFSrA+HBh107h@lorc.eskimo.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 10:35:46 -0500
- References: <1992Dec26.033728.28686@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <92366.200052CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Organization: LORC Enterprises
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- In <92366.200052CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET> <CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >The 720K drive referred to in a previous post -- Was that a 3.5 inch drive?
- >And, if so, can the stock disk controller in a Model 4 support such a drive? I
- >f it can, 720K disk drives would be an excellent 'high capacity' storage device
- > for a Model 4.
-
- Yes, the model 4 works fine with a 3.5. No worries there, except in that you
- will need a new cable (or new connectors on the existing cable) if you want to
- make it internal. Tandy pulled pins in the connectors to do drive selection,
- and it just so happens that the pin to do side selection was also pulled. :-(.
-
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- Lamar Owen, Systems Consultant | If there were a tax on syn,
- GE Lighting Systems, Hendersonville, NC | we'd all be broke.
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