<The 3.5 inch drive conversion. Using modern media on this machine would
<simplify things enormously. However I don't have the facilities to burn
<my own roms, so if it involves patching the bios rom (like it sounds like)
<I'll stick with 5.25 I guess.
Just get a Advent turborom... TCJ has them. Since the DQDD 5.25 format is
781k and that works well on 3.5" disks as well.
<That's right. It has the pads and traces for probably a 50 pin header jus
<behind the floppy connection header. Is this where I'd plug in the
<hard disk controller if I had it? And I don't suppose anyone ever made
It use a host interface controller try TCJ or find a 1002HDO + MFM drive.
<a SCSI host adapter for this thing? being able to use SCSI disks in it
<like I do in nearly every other machine I own would be VERY handy. (yes,
<I'm a SCSI bigot. I lothe IDE).
No hope for SCSI though there was IDE interface.
Allison
Received on Sat Jan 30 1999 - 22:28:05 GMT