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From: jons@islenet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Best laptop?  NEC Multispeed?
Message-ID: <3177@islenet.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 20:42:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 20 20:42:51 1987
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In article <297@gaia.UUCP> zhahai@gaia.UUCP (Zhahai Stewart) writes:
>ALSO: Has anyone tried making their own external 5 1/4" floppy drives
>for the Toshiba or Zenith?  Get a simple $80-100 drive (360K), and
>a $50 case with AC power supply, make up a cable?  This should be
>fairly straightforward and much cheaper than the $400-$500 external
>drives offered by the Toshiba/Zenith if you don't need battery powered 5 1/4"
>drives.  Is there a gotcha?  Do you have the pinouts for the cables?
>-- 
>Zhahai Stewart
>{hao | nbires}!gaia!zhahai

Works fine. The cable is the hardest part as Toshiba made the cable first and
foremost a standard printer cable and then wired the floppy cable *around*
it, so that the cable uses the unused pins from the parallel port.

The pinouts I can post in interest is guaranteed.

Aloha,

Jonathan Spangler
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