Need help or service manual for RS COCO mini disk 26-3022...

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Oct 15 14:34:24 2000

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, ajp166 wrote:
> Contact RS, they may still have manuals.
> The TEC201 is unfamiliar to me but the mechanism sounds like the Shugart
> by a different name.

I don't think so. I recall the TEC as being the drive with the "slide
switch" on the front (mechanical latch for the door?) I DON'T think that
it used a Shugart style positioner. That's part of why I expressed the
possibility that the label was NOT correct for the drive.

BTW, the mod to SA400s for 40 track was >20 years ago. Almost everybody
went to MPI, Tandon, etc. drives instead as soon as those were available.
It was even hard to sell an SA400 at VCF! ($4.00)

> The alternate solution is a newer 48tpi drive jumperd as needed.

The TEC (or Tandon or Shugart) drive can also be tested in a PC. But
Radio Shack jumpered ALL of the drive selects "ON", whereas IBM jumpered
every drive as if it were the second drive. So, to use a RS drive in a
PC, you would need to interrupt the signals on pins 10 and 14. On Tandons
and the like, that was a jumper block. On the TEC, it might require
cutting traces (readily accessible in a group).
When formatting in a PC, specify "/1", since you can only format single
sided.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sun Oct 15 2000 - 14:34:24 BST

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