RX50's on a PC?

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Oct 17 20:09:18 1998

On Oct 17, 18:22, Tony Duell wrote:
> Subject: Re: RX50's on a PC?
> >
> > Has anyone tried wiring an 8" RX52 floppy straight to a modern PC
> > controller? I did the best I know how, and I *appear* to have a
>
> What on earth is an 8" RX52? There are 8" RX01s and RX02s and 5.25" RX50s
> that I know about. Never heard of an 8" RX5x drive.

I wondered if the reference was to something like the General Robotics
double-sided RX02-compatible, but ISTR that's called an RX03. The drive is
a standard SA800-compatible, and the controller emulates an RXV12, except
that it has a firmware formatting routine.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

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