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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy portable disk drive specs
Message-ID: <564@bucket.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 23:32:06 EST
Article-I.D.: bucket.564
Posted: Fri Oct 23 23:32:06 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 00:42:23 EST
References: <500@moncol.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <500@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
<One of the local computer centers recently had a wharehouse sale and I had
<the chance to pick up a Portable Disk Drive (the original 100K one) for my
<Model 100. Since, it connects to the serial port, however, I'm wondering
<about connecting it to a larger system to allow for transfers between the
<larger system and the 100.
<
<I was wondering, therefore, if any of you know (or could tell me where I
<could find) the "protocol" specification for the disk drive (commands,
<etc.).

Well, there was an article in Portable 100 magazine a year or so back. And
I believe there are some files on the subject on Compuserve in the Model 100
SIG^H^H^HForum.

But I'd suggest ordeing the _service_ manual for it from Tandy. I've been
told that it contains most of the info you want.
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
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