hello

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Jan 15 10:07:44 1999

At 05:52 PM 1/14/99 -0600, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
>
>I have several Terak computers in need of serious work.
>If anyone has any technical information on the Terak floppy controller, or
>on the shugart 800 floppy drives in the Terak, i'd like to have a copy.

I've got the Terak floppy controller manuals. From my web page
at <http://www.threedee.com/jcm/terak/docs.html>:

 8510/a Graphics Computer System, Variable Density Disk Drive Controller,
 QB-BX Drive Controller-Handler Comparison & Disk Formatting Procedures,
 50-0018-001 Rev. C, 1980, 31+4 pgs.

 8510/a Graphics Computer System, Variable Density Disk Drive Controller,
 Installation Guide, 50-0017-001 Rev. A, 1980, 15+8 pgs.

 8510/a Graphics Computer System, Variable Density Disk Drive Controller,
 Reference Guide, 50-0010-001 Rev. E, 1980, 42+4 pgs.

 8257/8257-5 Programmable DMA Controller, Intel data sheet.

 8272A Single/Double Density Floppy Disk Controller, Intel data sheet.

Hmm, that's a lot of copying.

The Shugart 80x manual was online at
<http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~itda/frames.html>
although I can't seem to reach it right now.

- John
Received on Fri Jan 15 1999 - 10:07:44 GMT

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