Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!mips!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: 8" Flopper Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 12:15:13 GMT Article-I.D.: epmooch.ben.3224 References: Organization: Elvis Presley Museum Of Obsolete Computing Hardware Lines: 15 In article mmm@reaper.Chi.IL.US (Michael Marvin Morrison) writes: >Does anyone happen to have the pinout laying around to the old 8" Shugart >floppies? It appears to be a ~50 pin connector (gee, what are all those >extra lines for :-) Any help would be appreciated. It's not terribly standardized (one of the reasons 8" floppies lost in popularity). It's also not terribly useful on an Amiga; the data clock rate is different for 8" and the 5.25/3.5" drives. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |