ALTAIR stuff (was Re: E-Over Pay strikes again! original Altair disk sells for... )

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sat Feb 13 16:52:12 1999

Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com> wrote:
> the 37-pin D-sub connector has pretty much (there have been exceptions) been
> the standard for connecting external floppy drives of all sizes. Almost
> all PC (ISA) FDCs that support external drives use it, and the Xerox 820
> (CP/M) series used it.

Do you mean that the various systems that used the 37-pin D-sub actually
used the same pinout? I was of the impression that there was no standard
for it (before the IBM PC created a defacto standard in 1981), so I
assumed that the IBM, DEC, and Xerox stuff probably used entirely unrelated
pinouts.
Received on Sat Feb 13 1999 - 16:52:12 GMT