Sony CP/M machine?

From: Ray Stricklin <kjaeros_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed Jul 2 20:35:19 1997

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:

> Interesting. I have an external 5.25" floppy with a DB-25 connector and
> its own power supply brick. I found the DB25 connector odd, mostly since
> I've never seen an external 5.25" drive except for Apple ][s, and this
> one was obviously not for Apple ][s since the later model Apple drives
> used a DB15. I wonder if this is compatible with it? Or just a generic
> external PC-compat drive.

IBM's own external drives used a DB37 connector. If it belongs to a PC,
I'm guessing it is for use with one specific vendor's machine.

It is -possible- that it could belong to an Amiga. AFAIR, the Amiga's
external floppy port is DB25 (mine's not in front of me at the moment),
but the A1010 external 3.5" floppy I have gets power from the computer.

I don't count myself an expert on external floppy drives, though.

ok
-r
Received on Wed Jul 02 1997 - 20:35:19 BST