On 7/16/20 11:46 PM, Doug Jackson wrote:
Thats awesome news.
Sadly, that application is an abuse for that type of DIP switch - it is
designed to be set and left alone inside a piece of equipment.
To be fair to the drive designers, that's probably exactly the way it
was used, since the drive hardware was really made for Brother knitting
and sewing and embroidery machines not for a computer.
Those machines probably did not ever need to switch the dip switches
because they probably never needed to do anything like bootstrap and
install software from a disk in the drive. Surely a sewing machine that
used a drive like this as an accessory, just had hardcoded firmware.
We just have to flip the swithces because Tandy then saw it as an 99%
ready to go drive just needing a little software and a hacky serial<>ttl
cable to use it from the M100.
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bkw
