From: Andrew Beals (bandy_at_cinnamon.com)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 21:19:30 EST
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:52:52 -0800, "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury_at_loop.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:54:20 -0500, James Oldham wrote:
>
>>>===== Original Message From Andrew Beals <bandy_at_cinnamon.com> =====
>>
>>//snip//
>>
>>>You'll need a floppy, or a friend who has one that you can borrow, or find
>>>someone on the net who would be willing to accept your shipment of drives
>>>and disks and put it all together. (-:
>>
>>//snip//
>>
>>That almost sounds like an offer, Andy.
I always try to help out when I can. In fact, I just got back from
converting a friend's tablesaw to run on 220V. I had done my dust
collector and compressor previously, but I still haven't gotten around to
switching my own tablesaw over, much to my chagrin the last time I tried to
cut 3" thick maple.
Feel free to contact me off-list.
>>I don't have the equipment in hand, yet. When it arrives, I will muddle
>>through until I hit a wall. But I'm glad to know I can post questions here.
>>
>>I do have a floppy for an NCR 3125. If the connector is the same, is there an
>y
>>risk in trying it with the power on?
Probably some risk, but the little 26-pin mini Centronix style
connector is the same across IBM, and I have some little HP
drives that also work OK on my 770ED but surprisingly enough not
on my 730T/TE machines. The 730 will power the UltraBay floppy, the
floppy case from the 750 [100-pin connector on the back of the floppy
drive, can be swapped out for a CD or hard drive in the 750, I think?], and
also the teeny tiny IBM floppy that looks just like the HP drives I have.
>Don't know if that would work, but FWIW, you can use the external floppies
>used with 755 and 760 machines - these are the same as 730T/TE drives.
>You'd still need some form of the port replicator (or dock).
Big 10-4 on that. Actually, the "dock" is just a port replicator as well.
I popped open the port rep and it was nothing but traces running to connectors
with a few caps or resistors on the board. No real electronics!
>Just one note - make sure you get memory, so you can go to 24MB - it makes a t
>remendous
>difference. Memory is the same as for the 355/360/750/755 series notebooks (w
>ith a few exceptions
>as far as the 755 series goes).
Right Paul is. There is likely an additional 4Mb card inside your machine,
bringing it to 8Mb [shows 7xxx kb on boot], and you can put a 16Mb dram card
in to bump you up to 24Mb, which is still a large amount of memory for anything
but image processing.
andy
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