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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Best laptop?  NEC Multispeed?
Message-ID: <7538@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Mar-87 17:36:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 22 17:36:02 1987
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In article <3177@islenet.UUCP>, jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler) writes:
> 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? 
> 
> 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 if interest is guaranteed.

Interest is guaranteed.  Please post them.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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