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Al Hartman

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I dragged out my 5160 in a clone case, and tried to boot it. No go.

The switches were set all wrong, so resetting those fixed that. Now, it boots to Cassette BASIC.

I go through all my stuff and don't have an XT Floppy Cable that works with an IBM Floppy Controller.

I have plenty of the later cable, and none of the older ones, except for TRS-80 Cables that lack the twist.

So, I ordered a few connectors to modify one of my existing ones, and now... I wait.

In the meantime, I need to find the three XT RAM expansion boards I have, so I can kick it from 256k to 640k.

Then... I need to build Pearce_jj's IDE card for it so I can use a CF card as a hard drive.
 
Al Hartman said:
I go through all my stuff and don't have an XT Floppy Cable that works with an IBM Floppy Controller.

I have plenty of the later cable, and none of the older ones, except for TRS-80 Cables that lack the twist.

So, I ordered a few connectors to modify one of my existing ones, and now... I wait.
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Instead of waiting you could modify one of your existing ones now by simply taking the connector off of one of the later cables. :)

Or you could add the twist to the TRS-80 cable. That takes about 5 - 10 minutes.
 
I don't want to try to reuse a connector. I'd rather put a known good, fresh connector on the cable. The TRS-80 Cables are not to be touched. I need one each for the Model I, Model III/4D, LNW, and for my Coco 2 and Coco 3.

I'm still looking for the RAM cards and waiting for the rest of the parts to arrive to build the XT-IDE Controller. I even have an old hard card in here somewhere if I can find it. I also found a stack of old low capacity IDE drives I have to hook up and check out.

I just found three half height floppy drives, a 16 bit IDE/Floppy Controller, a very strange Secondary IDE Controller (16 bit), my old Palm Pilot, and tons of other stuff.
 
Al Hartman said:
I don't want to try to reuse a connector.
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FWIW, I've done this exact operation dozens and dozens of times with a 100% success rate.

Al Hartman said:
I'd rather put a known good, fresh connector on the cable.
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Hey, you'll know it's good when you hook it up after you've done it and it works. Or you can be particularly conscientious and ohm out all 34 positions. It's definately not rocket science. :)
 
I got the connectors I ordered the other day, but they sent 34 pin, female IDC Connectors (like 3.5" drives use), rather than the 34 pin female edgecard connectors.

*sigh!*

I checked the auction. I ordered the correct items.
 
Al,
I have connectors at my house (you too Stone) if you want to swing by. I have the whole cable making set up with a press and dies for 5 1/4 and 8 in drives.
bd
 
Stone said:
Make your own cable, dummy. Like we discussed earlier as in cable modification. :)
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Now, now, be nice! I gather that he doesn't have the edge connector he needs to make a cable, or a cable he's willing to sacrifice so why dontcha just send him a cable out of that box of 1000 at your end of the wormhole ;-)
 
Still arguing with the seller who knows they sent me the wrong thing, but is for some reason not just sending me what I ordered.

They want me to buy again the correct connectors and they will send them for free. I replied, why don't you just ship me what the auction was for, and what I paid for?

While I'm arguing with Hong Kong, I bought a floppy cable on eBay for a buck + shipping.
 
Stone said:
Instead of waiting you could modify one of your existing ones now by simply taking the connector off of one of the later cables. :)

Or you could add the twist to the TRS-80 cable. That takes about 5 - 10 minutes.
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Stone said:
I bet if you had made your own from your parts it would have come out right. :)
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Stone said:
Ya', but you *ordered* the right connectors before and you see where that got you. :) I was just reminding you that you already had all the *correct* ingredients on hand before.
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Al Hartman said:
Still arguing with the seller who knows they sent me the wrong thing, but is for some reason not just sending me what I ordered.

They want me to buy again the correct connectors and they will send them for free. I replied, why don't you just ship me what the auction was for, and what I paid for?

While I'm arguing with Hong Kong, I bought a floppy cable on eBay for a buck + shipping.
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No Comment. :)
 
Why don't you modify one of yours? Because I'm not interested in butchering one of mine. I don't need the cable that badly. I need connectors to make TRS-80 Drive cables besides the one I need for my XT.

Why is it you can't give me the benefit of being a knowledgeable, experienced, computer person who is doing it this way for a good reason?
 
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