Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Radio Shack $100 external 3.5" drive
Keywords: 3.5" drive for PC
Message-ID: <1039@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 20:02:55 GMT
References: <2299@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <2299@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
(Todd Ogasawara) writes:
<The latest Radio Shack flyer has a external 3.5" 720K disk drive selling
<for $99.95 (regular price is $279.95) for their 1000 EX PC.  Has anyone
<tried to stick one of these Radio Shack drives on an old-style IBM PC
<floppy disk drive controller?  Those old controllers had a 34-pin D-shell
<connector sticking out the back for external drives.

Sorry, but the pinouts don't match. The Tandy drive has a *30* pin
card-edge connector and expects to get it's power over the cable. 
Inside is just a TEAC drive and an adapter board to interface between
the 30-pin card edge and the drives power & controller connectors.

Even so, it's still a cheap way to get a Teac drive. If you can get
a circuit board made to replace the existing one, you could probably
even run normal power and control cables to it. Me, I just tossed the
case in the junk box...

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