Plus Passport

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Jun 17 23:29:09 2004

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Joe R. wrote:

> I barely remember the Passport but I've seen lots of other brands of
> removeable drive sleds in the scrap places. All of the ones that I've seen
> have a standard connection on the back (ST-506, IDE, SCSI or what-ever).
> None of the ones that I've used needed any drivers and I can't see why one
> would. The system just sees a regular IDE or SCSI port. It doens't know of
> care if the drive is removable. The only thing that you >might< have to do
> is to change the BIOS setting for the hard drive.

This one has an odd connector. It's a got one 34-pin ribbon coming off
the back. Even if it was MFM, didn't those have a secondary 16(ish)-pin
connector? This has a 1988 date on the mainboard.

The actual connector on the inside where the drive plugs in is only
26-pin. Very odd.

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